{"id":22,"date":"2004-11-08T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T08:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-11-08T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T08:50:56","slug":"generals-critique-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Generals critique the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/_\/id\/6593163?pageid=rs.Politics&#038;pageregion=single1&#038;rnd=1099929038812&#038;has-player=true&#038;version=6.0.12.857\">They think things look pretty bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gen. Merrill &#8220;Tony&#8221; McPeak<br \/>\n<i>Air Force chief of staff, 1990-94<\/i>:<br \/>\nWe have a force in Iraq that&#8217;s much too small to stabilize the situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Adm. Stansfield Turner<br \/>\n<i>NATO Allied commander for Southern Europe, 1975-77; CIA director, 1977-81<\/i>:<br \/>\nI think we are in a real mess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Gen. William Odom<br \/>\n<i>Director of the National Security Agency, 1985-88<\/i>:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing, and weep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They think things look pretty bad. Gen. Merrill &#8220;Tony&#8221; McPeak Air Force chief of staff, 1990-94: We have a force in Iraq that&#8217;s much too small to stabilize the situation. Adm. Stansfield Turner NATO Allied commander for Southern Europe, 1975-77; CIA director, 1977-81: I think we are in a real mess. Lt. Gen. William Odom Director of the National Security Agency, 1985-88: It&#8217;s a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse. Read the whole thing, and weep.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=22\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}