{"id":7297,"date":"2010-06-25T04:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2010-06-25T05:02:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T13:02:40","slug":"afghanistan-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/afghanistan-bottom-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan bottom-line"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The entire COIN strategy [the <strong>CO<\/strong>unter<strong>IN<\/strong>surgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people,&#8221; says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. &#8220;The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/17390\/119236\">&#8211;The Runaway General, Stanley McChrystal By  Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, Jun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people,&#8221; says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. &#8220;The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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":[91,42,7,95,29,8,167,3,10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4gw","category-afghanistan","category-empire","category-intervention","category-islam","category-military-spending","category-military-industrial-complex","category-news","category-war-party"],"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\/7297","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}