{"id":309,"date":"2003-12-01T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-01T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T00:08:08","slug":"descartes-with-an-m-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/01\/descartes-with-an-m-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Descartes with an M-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American soldier <a href=http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/84B9680B-55DF-4562-AFF3-093E94D3FBCB.htm>explains his concern for Iraqi &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221;<\/a> to a Western journalist: <\/p>\n<p><i>I asked my escort Specialist Jack Craig, a military policeman from Minnesota, how he correlated the &#8220;strike first&#8221; directive with the US military&#8217;s current policy of attempting to win the &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; of the local population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, I see &#8216;hearts and minds&#8217; as a tactical doctrine. To me, it means that&#8217;s where we should aim first,&#8221; said Craig. &#8220;Shoot them in the body or in the head, but just make sure you shoot them first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From his humourless expression, I presumed that he wasn&#8217;t joking.<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American soldier explains his concern for Iraqi &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; to a Western journalist: I asked my escort Specialist Jack Craig, a military policeman from Minnesota, how he correlated the &#8220;strike first&#8221; directive with the US military&#8217;s current policy of attempting to win the &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; of the local population. &#8220;Actually, I see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-309","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\/309","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}