{"id":2238,"date":"2005-07-21T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T18:34:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-21T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T18:34:19","slug":"more-american-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/more-american-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"More American mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lewrockwell.com\/lewrw\/archives\/008522.html#more\">Daniel McAdams<\/a> on what Congress did while you weren&#8217;t paying attention yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But what use is the application of the Lenin and Trotsky perfected techniques of the coup d&#8217;etat without the stabilization shock troops on the ground to consolidate the gains? Lebanon&#8217;s Cedar Revolution was ambiguous to say the least. Imagine what could have been done with stabilization troops available to husband the votes into a more creative expression of the universal democratic imperative.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lewrockwell.com\/lewrw\/archives\/008522.html#more\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel McAdams on what Congress did while you weren&#8217;t paying attention yesterday. But what use is the application of the Lenin and Trotsky perfected techniques of the coup d&#8217;etat without the stabilization shock troops on the ground to consolidate the gains? Lebanon&#8217;s Cedar Revolution was ambiguous to say the least. Imagine what could have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-2238","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\/2238","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}