{"id":2712,"date":"2006-03-29T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-29T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:04:25","slug":"margolis-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/margolis-gets-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Margolis gets it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/margolis\/margolis21.html#\">says<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as even Bush admits, has become an incubator, magnet, and call to arms for anti-American jihadists across the Muslim world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it would be easier (and cheaper) if we just learned from the <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/horton\/?articleid=5711\">mistakes of the past<\/a>, or at least heard advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.203.104\/search?q=cache:h3K511qbr1gJ:www.yale.edu\/lawweb\/avalon\/washing.htm+%22The+great+rule+of+conduct+for+us+in+regard+to+foreign+nations+is+in+extending+our+commercial+relations,+to+have+with+them+as+little+political+connection+as+possible.+So+far+as+we+have+already+formed+engagements,+let+them+be+fulfilled+with+perfect+good%22&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=us&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=2\">those who learned<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when he says, &#8220;The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as even Bush admits, has become an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-2712","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\/2712","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}