{"id":141,"date":"2006-02-22T08:02:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2006-02-22T08:02:04","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T12:02:04","slug":"the-last-telegraph-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"The last <i>Telegraph<\/i> leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2006%2F02%2F22%2Fdl2201.xml&amp;sSheet=%2Fopinion%2F2006%2F02%2F22%2Fixopinion.html\">this<\/a> stands as the most comprehensive surrender document signed by any ideology since 1989.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p> America should avoid direct, large-scale military action in the Middle East, relying instead on surrogates and operating behind the scenes to turn Muslim opinion against the jihadis. &#8230;  the invasion of Iraq has helped to radicalise the Muslim world and thus push it towards the arms of the extremists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>For fullest enjoyment, as they say, it should be read in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/2006\/02\/expert_advice.html\">what<\/a> they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/2003\/07\/what_we_were_told_2.html\">said<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/2002\/09\/wicked_and_clever.html\">earlier.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this stands as the most comprehensive surrender document signed by any ideology since 1989. America should avoid direct, large-scale military action in the Middle East, relying instead on surrogates and operating behind the scenes to turn Muslim opinion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}