{"id":2927,"date":"2011-05-02T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/05\/02\/that-osama-killing\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T17:21:20","slug":"that-osama-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/05\/02\/that-osama-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"That Osama killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/proggold\/2011\/05\/02\/osama-bin-laden-is-killed-nothing-changes\/\">Slightly suspicious, isn&#8217;t it<\/a>? Suddenly, after a decade of failure Osama Bin Laden is found conveniently in a compound in Pakistan, an American special forces team is flown in and manage to subdue Osama after a brief firefight, then executed him, dumping his body in the sea on their way back. It all seems tailor made for conspiracy theorists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhich shouldn&#8217;t distract from the main question: why not take him alive and let him stand trial for his crimes? The stupider sort of American may believe this is justice, but it remains a revenge killing that shows how of little value America&#8217;s supposed ideals are when things get tough. This looks like a triumph for America but instead it is an act of fear &#8212; a truly strong country would find the strength to put its enemies on trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUPDATE: come to think of it, having Osama executed in this way makes Khadaffi&#8217;s accusations of NATO trying to kill him and his family that more plausible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly suspicious, isn&#8217;t it? Suddenly, after a decade of failure Osama Bin Laden is found conveniently in a compound in Pakistan, an American special forces team is flown in and manage to subdue Osama after a brief firefight, then executed him, dumping his body in the sea on their way back. It all seems tailor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,440],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-foreign-policy","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}