{"id":2870,"date":"2006-07-21T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/the-news-before-it-happens\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T21:18:52","slug":"the-news-before-it-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/the-news-before-it-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"The News Before It Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">An update to <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=9371\">today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s column<\/a>, posted on Thursday, 10:00\u00c2\u00a0pm PST, in which I speculated that some sort of &#8220;international force&#8221; to supplant the IDF would be created. Bloomberg News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=aFfD.hAYqLU4&#038;refer=home\">reports\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>Friday morning:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>&#8220;Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she wants a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcrobust&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 international military force to try to oust Hezbollah forces from southern Lebanon, as she prepares to leave on a diplomatic mission to the region next week.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Any military force must be &#8216;robust enough&#8221; to supplant Hezbollah in southern Lebanon where it can launch attacks on Israel, she said. If not &#8216;we&#8217;re going to be back here in the next few months,&#8217; Rice said.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which prompts me to come up with a nifty new slogan:<\/p>\n<p>Antiwar.com \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the News <em>Before<\/em> It Happens.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in my column, this will forge the links of a new Anti-Shi&#8217;ite Front, a broad coalition of forces aligned against the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1399370,00.html\">Shia Crescent<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; as Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah nervously puts it &#8212; that will be prepared for future action. The War Party is marching down the road to Tehran:\u00c2\u00a0Beirut and\u00c2\u00a0Damascus are just stops along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s column, posted on Thursday, 10:00\u00c2\u00a0pm PST, in which I speculated that some sort of &#8220;international force&#8221; to supplant the IDF would be created. Bloomberg News reports\u00c2\u00a0Friday morning: &#8220;Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she wants a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcrobust&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 international military force to try to oust Hezbollah forces from southern Lebanon, as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-2870","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\/2870","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}