{"id":694,"date":"2009-09-02T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2009-09-02T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:37:37","slug":"jho-morphs-into-lbj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/jho-morphs-into-lbj\/","title":{"rendered":"JHO Morphs into LBJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past spring I started to compare Jesus H. Obama&#8217;s war lust in the outback of central Asia to LBJ&#8217;s little misadventures in an obscure corner of said continent* a few decades ago. It looks like the smart people are starting to catch on, and I&#8217;ve taken to chronicling those comparisons. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/20090901_obamas_meaningless_war\/\">This latest comparison<\/a> came from someone who should know: He was a reporter in the escalation days of Viet Nam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2009\/090209a.html\">Indeed, it is a very bad sequel&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1967 = 2009<br \/>\nEscalation = Increase Footprint.<br \/>\nHearts &#038; Minds = &#8220;Disrupt, Dismantle, and Defeat al-Qaeda&#8221;<br \/>\nBurning the Village to Save It = Smart Bombing the Village to Save It<br \/>\nGeneral William Westmoreland = General Stanley McChrystal<br \/>\nObjective: &#8220;Peace With Honor&#8221; = Objective: &#8220;We&#8217;ll know It When We See It&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More comparisons to come, I&#8217;m sure&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>*People! Remember your Risk (you know, the board game): Asia cannot be held! It is a continent of quagmires for all empires, past &#038; future alike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comparisons between Obama &#038; LBJ, Vietnam &#038; Afghanistan are going from a trickle to a gush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,13],"tags":[365,420,419,213,415,414,418,421,417,137,416],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-insecurity-heimatssicherheitsdienst-staatssicherheit","category-politics","tag-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-for-dummies","tag-consortium-news","tag-jesus-h-obama","tag-jho","tag-lbj","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-risk-board-game","tag-robert-scheer","tag-truthdig","tag-viet-nam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}