{"id":30,"date":"2003-07-13T01:54:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T08:54:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-13T01:54:50","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T08:54:50","slug":"like-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/like-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;like Kosovo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/turningtables.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Baghdad Blogger\">Baghdad Blogger<\/a>\u201d is a window into the occupation of Iraq. His 7-12 entry discusses a new feature of his Baghdad camp:<\/p>\n<ul>brown and root is on the ground\u2026this always boost soldiers spirits\u2026when those guys show up things start getting nice quick\u2026they start putting up buildings and chow halls so quickly\u2026they hire out local nationals to cook and serve food\u2026the chow is already a step up from A-rats\u2026but that really isn\u2019t that hard to do\u2026<\/ul>\n<p>The presence of \u201cbrown and root\u201d &#8211; a military organization that feeds and houses stationed troops &#8211; is an indication that the stay will be long:<\/p>\n<ul>brown and root can be a double edged sword\u2026the quality of life does improve but they usually don\u2019t come in unless an american presence is going to last for years\u2026like kosovo\u2026<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201dBaghdad Blogger\u201d is a window into the occupation of Iraq. His 7-12 entry discusses a new feature of his Baghdad camp: brown and root is on the ground\u2026this always boost soldiers spirits\u2026when those guys show up things start getting nice quick\u2026they start putting up buildings and chow halls so quickly\u2026they hire out local nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-30","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\/30","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}