{"id":33,"date":"2002-09-26T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2002-09-26T10:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2002\/09\/26\/what-to-do-with-iraq\/"},"modified":"2002-09-26T10:48:03","modified_gmt":"2002-09-26T10:48:03","slug":"what-to-do-with-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2002\/09\/26\/what-to-do-with-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2002\/11\/fallows.htm\">The Fifty-first State?<\/a> makes a lot of interesting points about a potential war on Iraq, concentrating on what happens after the (inevitable?) American victory.<\/p>\n<p>The only part I&#8217;m not too sure about is the tying of democracy to American economic policies.  It&#8217;s this idea of &#8220;you can elect anyone you want so long as they agree with us&#8221; that has led to many of the USA&#8217;s mistakes in the past, especially in South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article: The Fifty-first State? makes a lot of interesting points about a potential war on Iraq, concentrating on what happens after the (inevitable?) American victory. The only part I&#8217;m not too sure about is the tying of democracy to American economic policies. It&#8217;s this idea of &#8220;you can elect anyone you want so long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}