{"id":756,"date":"2006-04-20T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/is_there_a_civi"},"modified":"2006-04-20T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T19:05:25","slug":"is_there_a_civi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Is there a civil war in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that one has been going on for many years. <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/of-words.htm?\">Michael Yon&#8217;s<\/a> thoughtful dissertation on this complex subject. It gave me a different insight on what may lie ahead for Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>To give you the flavor of Michael&#8217;s writing, I have taken this image&nbsp; and the following quote from Michael Yon&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Michaelyon09sm\" title=\"Michaelyon09sm\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/michaelyon09sm.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 45px 1px 0px; float: left;\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I asked this Yezidi headman when he thought the war began, he could not remember a time in his life when there wasn\u2019t a war. Except for the past ten years, when the American military prevented Saddam from committing further atrocities upon the Kurds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of Michael&#8217;s post, it will provide background material for understanding my previous post about an Iraqi blogger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that one has been going on for many years. Read Michael Yon&#8217;s thoughtful dissertation on this complex subject. It gave me a different insight on what may lie ahead for Iraq. To give you the flavor of Michael&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1779,1831],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-cc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}