{"id":24399,"date":"2014-10-12T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24399"},"modified":"2014-10-12T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T14:42:12","slug":"obamas-harebrained-scheme-for-benevolent-carnage-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/obamas-harebrained-scheme-for-benevolent-carnage-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Harebrained Scheme for Benevolent Carnage Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Richard Nixon always said, the nation’s cartoonists are a pox on national security.\u00a0 And now Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury has gone and exposed the secret calculations behind the latest U.S. intervention in Iraq. Sorta.<\/p>\n

If American citizens had real-time access to the secret memos, emails etc. that are driving Obama’s latest bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria, the truth would probably be at least as absurd as this cartoon.\u00a0\u00a0 It is the secrecy that permits Obama to bomb with impunity.\u00a0 Secrecy\u00a0prevents far more opposition to Obama’s\u00a0latest harebrained scheme for benevolent carnage.<\/p>\n

And if the ISIS terrorists begin targeting\u00a0Americans and U.S. facilities\u00a0abroad or here, the Obama administration will assure us that there was no way they could have anticipated such a response to\u00a0the bombing campaign against ISIS.\u00a0 And homeland security and nitwit pro-bombing foreign experts will win lifetime job security as a result.<\/p>\n

On Twitter @jimbovard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 www.jimbovard.com<\/p>\n

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Like Richard Nixon always said, the nation’s cartoonists are a pox on national security.\u00a0 And now Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury has gone and exposed the secret calculations behind the latest U.S. intervention in Iraq. Sorta. If American citizens had real-time access to the secret memos, emails etc. that are driving Obama’s latest bombing campaign in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/24399","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24400,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24399\/revisions\/24400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}