{"id":2407,"date":"2021-08-15T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=2407"},"modified":"2021-08-15T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:54:19","slug":"analogies-an-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/analogies-an-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogies, an excerpt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then you have the military-industrial complex, who have been rolling stones up and down Afghanistan&#8217;s mountains for, what is it, how many years?&#8221;\u00a0 [excerpted from &#8220;Analogies&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Oy vey, the war in Afghanistan is ending. Hopefully we can have another war someplace else on Earth.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m sure the military-industrial complex are already planning the next one, for that is their raison d&#8217; etre.\u00a0 \u00a0How about Iran or Myanmar, those poor Rohingya you know, or Venezuela for instance.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Perhaps not Iran, those fuckers can fight, as Iraq found out, also we don&#8217;t want to appear fixated on the Middle East. Venezuela sounds good, they&#8217;ve got a lot of oil.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One thing is for sure, in a nation inured to war it\u00a0<em>will<\/em> happen again for we can&#8217;t allow\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0of our youth\u00a0 to reach a ripe old age now, can we. Ha,ha,\u00a0 ha,ha ha!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Islander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then you have the military-industrial complex, who have been rolling stones up and down Afghanistan&#8217;s mountains for, what is it, how many years?&#8221;\u00a0 [excerpted from &#8220;Analogies&#8221;] Oy vey, the war in Afghanistan is ending. Hopefully we can have another war someplace else on Earth.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m sure the military-industrial complex are already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/analogies-an-excerpt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Analogies, an excerpt.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2407\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}