{"id":1248,"date":"2006-10-28T02:34:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-10-28T02:35:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T02:35:15","slug":"losing_is_not_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Losing Is Not An Option&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omar, at Iraq The Model, issues a <a href=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/battle-for-middle-east.html\" target=\"browser\">cri de coeur<\/a> to the west about the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We need the decision-makers to rise above the rhetoric of who&#8217;s right and who&#8217;s wrong and focus on protecting the world from falling prey to the vicious enemies of civilization.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right, of course. For too many of us the war is a tool to be wielded for political advantage &#8211; to frighten the electorate and shift votes right, or to decry and shift votes left.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that there is something real, and bad, over the horizon. We should neither deny its existence nor build it into something it is not.<\/p>\n<p>And what I want from my leaders &#8211; and what Omar needs from them &#8211; is something other than fairy stories designed to frighten us or lull us to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met Omar, and shared meals with him. It&#8217;s personal to me.<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re not careful, it&#8217;ll be personal for all of us soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq The Model speaks out about the war.<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}