{"id":700,"date":"2005-01-23T04:17:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:59","slug":"exit_strategy_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Exit Strategy? What Exit Strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaa, <a href=\"http:\/\/messopotamian.blogspot.com\/2005_01_01_messopotamian_archive.html#110642594491290975\n\" target=\"browser\">writing about the election in The Mesopotamian<\/a>, has a realistic look at how the election is likely to play out and what it means &#8211; and doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>He finishes with something I think we all need to keep in mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Moreover, no one should expect that the security situation and strife would somehow improve after the elections; it is more likely to intensify. This is an unfinished war; the Saddamists and their allies have fully regrouped and rearmed and are being very well financed and supported. The brave American people have given President Bush the mandate to finish this war despite the painful sacrifices and material cost. The Iraqi people are up in arms through the political groupings, new army, N.G. and various security forces and are suffering the greater part of the sacrifice. Despite all the snags and faltering, these forces are getting bigger and stronger and should be supported and nurtured until they can bear the full responsibility; this is the only viable \u201cexit strategy\u201d available. In fact, we do not like this phrase, for what is required is a \u201cvictory strategy\u201d. This war must be fought to the bitter end, and there is only one outcome acceptable both to us and to you: <b>Total and Complete Victory.<\/b> Anything else is completely unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>Salaam<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Wa alaikumus salaam to you, Alaa&#8230;good luck and all our support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaa, writing about the election in The Mesopotamian, has a realistic look at how the election is likely to play out and what it means &#8211; and doesn&#8217;t. He finishes with something I think we all need to keep in mind: Moreover, no one should expect that the security situation and strife would somehow improve [&hellip;]<\/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\/700"}],"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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}