{"id":2446,"date":"2005-10-19T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:25:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-19T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:25:42","slug":"the-afghanistan-model-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/19\/the-afghanistan-model-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Afghanistan Model&#8221; for success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/beta.abc3340.com\/news\/stories\/1005\/270023.html\">Condoleeza Rice<\/A> is telling Congress today that the Bush strategy for Iraq is the &#8220;successful&#8221; one they used in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Condi:<BLOCKQUOTE>&#8220;Our strategy is to clear, hold, and build,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The enemy&#8217;s strategy is to infect, terrorize, and pull down.&#8221;<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a mention anywhere that indicated what the end to this was supposed to be.  However, shooting for the Afghanistan benchmark is probably a good idea, as the two countries have <A HREF=\"http:\/\/story.irishsun.com\/p.x\/ct\/9\/id\/1eac184196eea0c8\/cid\/2411cd3571b4f088\/\">some clear similarities already.<br \/>\n<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condoleeza Rice is telling Congress today that the Bush strategy for Iraq is the &#8220;successful&#8221; one they used in Afghanistan. Here&#8217;s Condi:&#8220;Our strategy is to clear, hold, and build,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The enemy&#8217;s strategy is to infect, terrorize, and pull down.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t find a mention anywhere that indicated what the end to this was [&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-2446","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\/2446","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=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}