{"id":1293,"date":"2007-01-16T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/backward-and-forward\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T11:46:11","slug":"backward-and-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/backward-and-forward","title":{"rendered":"Backward and forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the weekend, I linked to a Ron Rosenbaum post about parallels between Vietnam & Cambodia and the war in Iraq<\/a>. If that subject interested you, this post from Jane Galt about 20\/20 hindsight regarding Iraq<\/a> is a must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the weekend, I linked to a Ron Rosenbaum post about parallels between Vietnam & Cambodia and the war in Iraq. If that subject interested you, this post from Jane Galt about 20\/20 hindsight regarding Iraq is a must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-kR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":152,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-parkers-and-the-wmd-question","url_meta":{"origin":1293,"position":0},"title":"“The Parkers” and the WMD question","author":"Gil","date":"February 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a transcript of a GREAT interview with Mo'Nique.However, to get to it, you'll have to read a conversation with Christopher Hitchens about the invasion of Iraq, faulty intelligence, Mel Gibson's historical anti-semitism, Bloomberg's attempt at Disney-fying NYC, and more. 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