{"id":1784,"date":"2003-11-27T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/27\/remember-afganistan-hillary-does\/"},"modified":"2003-11-27T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T01:00:24","slug":"remember-afganistan-hillary-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/27\/remember-afganistan-hillary-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Afganistan? Hillary Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1926'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hillaf.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" align=\"left\"> In what<br \/>\n        WOULD have been the top international story of the day, Democratic non-candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Aghanistan for Thanksgiving, giving thanks no doubt for the opportunity to visit an ally on the verge of falling victem AGAIN to American short-sightedness and the present administration&#8217;s<br \/>\n        fixation on the Bad Boys in Iraq.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Clinton said in the AP interview that more troops are needed to defeat<br \/>\n          insurgents and to provide the security needed for Afghans to rebuild.<br \/>\n          Taliban and al-Qaida forces are trying &#8220;to wear down our staying power,&#8221;<br \/>\n          she said. &#8220;I believe we need more troops to be able to provide that<br \/>\n          security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20031127\/D7V35R5G0.html\">from<br \/>\n          the AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The President, not about to let the easily distracted national attention<br \/>\n        wander from his pet war front, responded with a secret  lightning strike into the<br \/>\n        heart of Iraq, at least if you consider the George Bush Bagdad International airport the heart of<br \/>\n        Iraq. (see following story) So which story is the Major Media paying attention<br \/>\n        to? How about you? <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what WOULD have been the top international story of the day, Democratic non-candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Aghanistan for Thanksgiving, giving thanks no doubt for the opportunity to visit an ally on the verge of falling victem AGAIN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/27\/remember-afganistan-hillary-does\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}