{"id":3166,"date":"2006-12-27T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T22:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/the-first-time-as-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T23:38:42","slug":"the-first-time-as-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/the-first-time-as-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time As Tragedy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Army Times<\/em> r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/story.php?f=1-292925-2446993.php\">eports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Center for American Progress proposed Wednesday to have a diplomatic rather than military surge in Iraq, and urged the new Democrat-controlled Congress to demand another vote authorizing military operations in Iraq if the number of U.S. troops will exceeds 150,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230;. What would a vote to reauthorize the invasion and occupation of Iraq mean, concretely? Will the Democrats take back their previous votes in favor?<\/p>\n<p>Well, not exactly. Lawrence Korb, a Reagan era defense official, who worked on the Center&#8217;s proposal, suggests a cap on troops to be mobilized from the reserves. Here is the perfect set-up for the promulgation of a myth that we could have &#8220;won&#8221; if only our hands hadn&#8217;t been tied by meddling politicians. Korb&#8217;s idea lock sus into the conflict, hands a powerful rhetorical weapon to the War Party &#8212; and only underscores the impracticality of any &#8220;exit strategy&#8221; short of exiting forthwith and completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army Times reports: The Center for American Progress proposed Wednesday to have a diplomatic rather than military surge in Iraq, and urged the new Democrat-controlled Congress to demand another vote authorizing military operations in Iraq if the number of U.S. troops will exceeds 150,000. Hmmmm&#8230;. What would a vote to reauthorize the invasion and [&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-3166","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\/3166","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=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}