{"id":1310,"date":"2007-09-01T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T03:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2007-09-01T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T03:52:06","slug":"on-the-coming-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"On the Coming War With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1274\">I wrote two weeks ago about the President&#8217;s decision to name the Iranian Republican Guard &mdash; one of the major branches of their military &mdash; a &#8220;global terrorist organization&#8221;<\/a> and the implications that had for a potential military strike against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Then I read this today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/9\/1\/183018\/1527\">an article at DailyKos giving the perspective of a Marine aboard a carrier in the Persian Gulf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Just how close are we to the edge?<\/p>\n<p>Because if that article <i>is<\/i> true, it&#8217;s chilling.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I think yet.  Except that it worries me.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq is already a catastrofuck.  Iran would be <i>far<\/i> worse.<\/p>\n<p>Because, yes, I do think President Bush <i>is<\/i> that insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote two weeks ago about the President&#8217;s decision to name the Iranian Republican Guard &mdash; one of the major branches of their military &mdash; a &#8220;global terrorist organization&#8221; and the implications that had for a potential military strike against Iran. Then I read this today, an article at DailyKos giving the perspective of a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1310\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Coming War With Iran&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,180],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-iran","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}