{"id":106,"date":"2003-08-23T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T17:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2003-08-23T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2003-08-23T17:21:39","slug":"opportunities-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read yesterday on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2003_08_01_juancole_archive.html#106144815805738685\">Juan Cole<\/a> that most of Baghdad&#8217;s printers had gone on strike, their first in 30 years, to protest a decision awarding the contract for printing new textbooks to foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to mention it and this bit I came across reporting that the contract for mobiles and phone service had been awarded to an <a href=\"http:\/\/menareport.com\/story\/TheNews.php3?action=story&#038;sid=255621&#038;lang=e&#038;dir=mena\">Israeli firm.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This continued outsourcing of contracts that could possibly be awarded to Iraqis themselves is an affront to the continued justification for this occupation.<\/p>\n<p>But when I visited Informed Comment just now, the latest posting is about an internet friend of Cole&#8217;s who was killed Thursday near al-Hilla.<\/p>\n<p>Business deals can always be renegotiated.  This continuing loss of life can never be undone.<\/p>\n<p>What a tragic time this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read yesterday on Juan Cole that most of Baghdad&#8217;s printers had gone on strike, their first in 30 years, to protest a decision awarding the contract for printing new textbooks to foreigners. I wanted to mention it and this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}