{"id":1978,"date":"2004-05-25T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/talking-us-into-defeat\/"},"modified":"2004-05-25T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T17:51:15","slug":"talking-us-into-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/25\/talking-us-into-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking us into defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTurns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/Commentary\/com-5_21_04_MK.html\">Mort Kondracke said it already:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this respect, there is a real danger that Iraq could become like Vietnam &#8211; a self-inflicted defeat. Public support for the war is down, and even conservative columnists such as David Brooks and George Will are implying that Bush&#8217;s aims are unachievable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as we lost Vietnam in the newsrooms and not on the battlefield, Iraq will be quagmire or success depending on America&#8217;s attention span.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/mattwelch.com\/warblog.html\">Matt Welch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Mort Kondracke said it already: In this respect, there is a real danger that Iraq could become like Vietnam &#8211; a self-inflicted defeat. Public support for the war is down, and even conservative columnists such as David Brooks and George Will are implying that Bush&#8217;s aims are unachievable. Just as we lost Vietnam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/25\/talking-us-into-defeat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talking us into defeat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-vU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}