{"id":212,"date":"2007-05-15T17:21:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T23:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=212"},"modified":"2007-05-15T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T23:21:53","slug":"kurdistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Kurdistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato takes apart the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=8239\">redeploying<\/a> to Kurdistan. I&#8217;ve always felt this was something being tossed off by ignorami as a way to withdraw without withdrawing.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason that this commentary misses is strategic.  Kurdistan is land-locked.  If Iraq turns ugly, the only way to get out is through Turkey.  And I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d be <em>delighted<\/em> to have tens of thousands of troops and thousands or armored vehicles marching through their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato takes apart the idea of redeploying to Kurdistan. I&#8217;ve always felt this was something being tossed off by ignorami as a way to withdraw without withdrawing. Another reason that this commentary misses is strategic. Kurdistan is land-locked. If Iraq turns ugly, the only way to get out is through Turkey. And I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kurdistan?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-3q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}