{"id":3834,"date":"2007-08-31T04:03:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/patrick-cockburn-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:03:19","slug":"patrick-cockburn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/patrick-cockburn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Cockburn"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_08_30_pcockburn.mp3]\n<p>Patrick Cockburn, discusses &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/middle_east\/article2841425.ece\">The Surge: A Special Report<\/a>&#8221; which he wrote for the <em>Independent<\/em>, where he is Middle East correspondent: the split between the Sadr and Hakim factions; American propaganda that Iran is behind Sadr and the Mahdi Army and the &#8220;new&#8221; EFP bombs; the widespread humanitarian catastrophe; the occupation and sectarian war it has created; divisions in Kurdistan; the crisis in Kirkuk; predictions in the event of an eventual withdrawal; the redirection toward the Sunni insurgency; the unimportance of Allawi, Maliki or anyone else America installs in power; the danger to U.S. soldiers in Iraq if Cheney bombs Iran; predictions for the short and long term.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_08_30_pcockburn.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (46:39)<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Cockburn is the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1844671003\/counterpunchmaga\">The       Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq<\/a><\/em>, a finalist       for the National Book Critics&#8217; Circle Award for best non-fiction       book of 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi Disaster They Call Success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3834","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\/3834","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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}