{"id":543,"date":"2003-02-16T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2003-02-16T13:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2003-02-16T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2003-02-16T13:40:59","slug":"two-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Two documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Feith is now a very senior Pentagon official: the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israeleconomy.org\/strat1.htm\" title=\"thanks to Robert Fisk\">Here<\/a> is what he had to say in favour of invading Iraq in 1996. Note all the weird mystical stuff about &#8220;national exhaustion&#8221;; the urge to make Israel less dependent on foreign aid, and &#8212; which I find a little odd in American citizens &#8212; the exhortations that it stop being bossed about by America.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/policy\/speech\/feb_11_03.html\" title=\"from the DoD web site\">Here<\/a> is what he told a congressional committee last week about America&#8217;s plans for governing Iraq.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ask yourself whether the Netanyahu\/Feith\/Perle strategy laid out in 1996 has in fact made Israel richer, more secure, and more respected. Now figure out the chances of the Bush\/Feith\/Perle strategy in Iraq. You need not show your workings, but at some stage, you should include the most striking phrase in the whole 1996 document: <sub>&#8220;Israel has a chance to forge a new relationship with the Palestinians&#8221;<\/sub>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Feith is now a very senior Pentagon official: the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Here is what he had to say in favour of invading Iraq in 1996. Note all the weird mystical stuff about &#8220;national exhaustion&#8221;; the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/543"}],"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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}