{"id":251,"date":"2006-05-17T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2006-07-19T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:02:38","slug":"an-army-on-the-way-to-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"An army on the way to disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/turcopolier.typepad.com\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/2006\/05\/joe_galloway_an.html\">says a veteran military reporter<\/a> to one of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld&#8217;s underlings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;this is not an army on the way up but one on the way to a disaster&#8230; so far it is the willingness of these young men and women to serve, and to deploy multiple times, and to work grueling and dangerous 18 hour days 7 days a week that is the glue holding things together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>all the cheap fixes have been used; all the one-time-only gains so beloved of legislators trying to balance a budget and get out of town.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>says a veteran military reporter to one of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld&#8217;s underlings: &#8220;&#8230;this is not an army on the way up but one on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}