{"id":1602,"date":"2005-01-03T22:24:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T05:24:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-03T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T05:24:21","slug":"hearts-and-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/03\/hearts-and-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts and Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jameswolcott.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/kind_of_a_shame.php\">James Wolcott<\/a>, we have an article from <i>The Economist<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.1accesshost.com\/news3\/economist.html\">detailing the American military&#8217;s tactics in the insurgent hotbed Al Anbar Province<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Ramadi, the capital of central Anbar province, where 17 suicide-bombs struck American forces during the month-long Muslim fast of Ramadan in the autumn, the marines are jumpy. Sometimes, they say, they fire on vehicles encroaching within 30 metres, sometimes they fire at 20 metres: \u201cIf anyone gets too close to us we fucking waste them,\u201d says a bullish lieutenant. \u201cIt&#8217;s kind of a shame, because it means we&#8217;ve killed a lot of innocent people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.1accesshost.com\/news3\/economist.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via James Wolcott, we have an article from The Economist detailing the American military&#8217;s tactics in the insurgent hotbed Al Anbar Province: In Ramadi, the capital of central Anbar province, where 17 suicide-bombs struck American forces during the month-long Muslim fast of Ramadan in the autumn, the marines are jumpy. Sometimes, they say, they fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}