{"id":1446,"date":"2007-08-18T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/18\/the-surge\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T04:46:27","slug":"the-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/18\/the-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"the “surge”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the last couple of weeks wandering around Colorado [hiding from the news], I’ve been thinking about the so-called "surge." The Iraq Study Group<\/strong> made a gajillion recommendations, but the idea of a "surge" wasn’t one of them. Where did it come from? It was doomed from the start.  Bush was supposedly off at Camp David contemplating things [an amazing claim!]. Then he announced the "surge," out of the blue. Well, it’s not out of the blue. It’s their standard operating procedure. Looking at Bush’s Approval Ratings, it’s what they always do. When they get behind the eight ball, they come up with something to get them over the hump – like around election time. In the long run, these "surges" don’t change things. It’s just a way to get a temporary boost – crisis intevention. The gains are never sustained. It’s their standard political trick. Well, their "mid-term" surge didn’t work, just like the troop "surge" hasn’t worked. I’m not even sure that matters. They’re just looking for short-term gain – getting people off their backs. Like Bush’s Approval rating, the Iraq situation continues to slide downhill…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last couple of weeks wandering around Colorado [hiding from the news], I’ve been thinking about the so-called "surge." The Iraq Study Group made a gajillion recommendations, but the idea of a "surge" wasn’t one of them. Where did it come from? It was doomed from the start.  Bush was supposedly off at Camp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}