{"id":1059,"date":"2006-04-09T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:41","slug":"a_man_a_plan_ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"A Man, A Plan, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a side note, it&#8217;s interesting that the <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2006_04_02_atrios_archive.html#114451517047946314\" target=\"browser\">people<\/a> who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.juancole.com\/2005\/07\/consequences-of-nuking-iran-readers.html&#038;ei=jzk5RIu3MsO0YcGP8MkH&#038;sig2=VZY0m9T4rpANX-FxoG31dQ\" target=\"browser\">having<\/a> strokes over the claim that the Administration is developing a plan or series of plans for military action in Iran are the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=5&#038;url=http%3A\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_07_06_atrios_archive.html&#038;ei=5Tg5RO2hH4juYJHb0bQH&#038;sig2=NB5ab-IsfxfOUL6lkHCCew\" target=\"browser\">people<\/a> who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=16&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.juancole.com\/2004_10_01_juancole_archive.html&#038;ei=QTk5RNL4LJ6YYP7E9N0H&#038;sig2=1SRnjNZq1VQqXEwneIqx0g\" target=\"browser\">strokes<\/a> over the lack of planning in the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>I tend not to get very exercised about this, since I&#8217;m sure that there are plans being updated every day for &#8211; among other things &#8211; the invasion of Canada. All those midlevel officers in the Pentagon have to do something every day, and having detailed contingency plans for just about everything is probably a pretty good thing for them to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure of these plans is a part of the dance in which the Administration tries to manage perceptions within Iran while the press tries to manage perceptions of the Administration within the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean that we have plans to attack Iran?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}