{"id":301,"date":"2007-02-28T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=301"},"modified":"2008-12-29T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:57:04","slug":"start-planning-2011s-fourth-of-july-party-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2007\/02\/28\/start-planning-2011s-fourth-of-july-party-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Start planning 2011&#8217;s Fourth of July party now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have faith in the American people. When presented with a situation that is clearly and obviously precedented, we will learn from history\u2014spending\u00a0<em>years<\/em>\u00a0less time dithering before doing what needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYears\u201d is a vague term, of course. Its minimum is \u201ctwo.\u201d Given that the current administration appears incapable of perceiving reality, let alone reacting appropriately to it, we\u2019d better stick with the minimum.<\/p>\n<p>The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was August 7, 1964. The Fall of Saigon was April 30, 1975. Ten years, eight months, and 23 days. The Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq was October 11, 2002. If we assume that we can learn from history as described above, we add eight years, eight months, and 23 days. This yields my prediction for the Fall of Baghdad: July 4, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>That works out nicely. It\u2019s a Monday\u2014perfect for the Monday morning quarterbacking claims that we could have \u201cwon\u201d if only we\u2019d followed whatever idiot scheme the speaker favored. Better still, the war apologists will be able to stay in their back yards setting off firecrackers to drown out the media coverage of our final squalid retreat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have faith in the American people. When presented with a situation that is clearly and obviously precedented, we will learn from history\u2014spending\u00a0years\u00a0less time dithering before doing what needs to be done. \u201cYears\u201d is a vague term, of course. Its minimum is \u201ctwo.\u201d Given that the current administration appears incapable of perceiving reality, let alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}