{"id":1740,"date":"2008-05-13T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-05-13T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:13:14","slug":"stupidest_act_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Stupidest Act Of The Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/13\/breaking-news-us-government-shoots-self-in-foot-again\/\" target=\"browser\">Kings of War<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/abuaardvark.typepad.com\/abuaardvark\/2008\/05\/resource-tradeo.html\" target=\"browser\">Abu Aardvark: resource tradeoffs and the war on ideas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nVia Marc Lynch at the link above I note that the US government because of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbudgetary shortfalls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is forced to fire analysts in Radio Free Europe\/Free Liberty. Those receiving pink slips are apparently to include RFE\/RL analysts Daniel Kimmage and Kathleen Ridolfo authors of important reports on Iraqi insurgent use of media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2007\/06\/830debc3-e399-4fa3-981c-cc44badae1a8.html\" target=\"browser\">The War of Images<\/a> and Ideas and Al Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use of the Internet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/04\/512ce9d3-53ae-46cc-800b-c8ff317f7178.html\" target=\"browser\">The Virtual Network Behind the Global Message<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nI really don&#8217;t get this administration. Actually I do get something: six years into the GWOT they still haven&#8217;t got a clue about the nature of the war they are in. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the ignorance which galls its the studied, committed blindness and warped priorities which they exhibit. RFE\/RL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual budget is $79 million. By comparison that kind of money would buy you about one half of a single F-22 &#8211; pilot and fuel not included.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve bashed Bush for years for failing to explain the war to the domestic public, and by extension for failing to participate meaningfully in the information conflict that is inextricably a part of the war. The fact that they are cutting budget for components of that conflict as we&#8217;re getting our asses kicked in the space makes so little sense to me that I can&#8217;t begin to explain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Administration is laying off the information warriors&#8230;what the heck are they thinking?<\/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\/1740"}],"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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}