{"id":5263,"date":"2012-02-21T19:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2012-02-21T19:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:39:53","slug":"counterinsurgency-tips-a-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/counterinsurgency-tips-a-new-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterinsurgency Tips: A New Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like my previous posting of counterinsurgency tips was not enough, as some &#8216;Mericans a&#8217;fightin&#8217; the ever-lasting gobsmacker of a war in Afghanistan just thought it would be OK to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-apologizes-for-burning-of-muslim-holy-books-in-garbage-pile-at-afghanistan-base\/2012\/02\/21\/gIQAzafVRR_story.html\">burn &#8217;em up<\/a> a bunch of unneeded Korans. This is a perfectly normal kind of mistake, since Americans always burn unneeded <del datetime=\"2012-02-21T19:31:29+00:00\">flags<\/del> <del datetime=\"2012-02-21T19:31:29+00:00\">bibles<\/del> garbage.<\/p>\n<p>A Western military official said the Korans were removed from a library at a detention center because they contained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/white-house-apologizes-for-burning-of-muslim-holy-books-in-garbage-pile-at-afghanistan-base\/2012\/02\/21\/gIQAzafVRR_story.html\">extremist messages<\/a>. The reporters covering this story had no curiosity about exactly what <em>that<\/em> meant and so did not ask any questions as they took down dictation from the White House.<br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>One more fucking time now, and pay attention:<\/p>\n<p>Burning Korans is bad.<\/p>\n<p>Using Nazi symbolism is bad:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/marine-nazi-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/marine-nazi-22-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"marine-nazi-22\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5136\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/counterinsurgency-is-not-peeing-on-people\/\">Peeing<\/a> on Taliban, also bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/marines-peeing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/marines-peeing-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"marines peeing\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/marines-peeing-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/marines-peeing.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>It all reminds people of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/abu-ghraib.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/abu-ghraib-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"abu ghraib\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5138\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>Any questions, please see your chain of command for more information! 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This is a perfectly normal kind of mistake, since Americans always burn unneeded flags bibles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[1021,1020,139],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-democracy","tag-counterinsurgency","tag-koran","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wemeantwell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}