{"id":545,"date":"2004-06-26T17:44:22","date_gmt":"2004-06-26T21:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=545"},"modified":"2004-06-26T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2004-06-26T21:44:22","slug":"realism-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Realism 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

George is boasting<\/a> that NATO has agreed to train an Iraqi security force.<\/p>\n

He must be basing his enthusiasm on the great success of NATO operations in Afghanistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The alliance?s mission in Afghanistan is in trouble. Nearly a year after NATO took over leadership of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), its 6,400 troops are still largely restricted to the Afghan capital Kabul, and to the northern province of Konduz. <\/p>\n

The alliance is having difficulties gathering together the extra forces and equipment necessary to extend its presence further into the provinces. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, security is deteriorating around the country, according to a coalition of some 50 aid organizations called the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief. Nineteen aid workers have been killed so far in 2004. <\/p>\n

In light of this, the agency has appealed to the Istanbul summit to seize what may be the “last chance” to establish security in that war-weary land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and Kosovo<\/a>, correct<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Dahr Jamail wonders “how much worse does it need to get here before the occupiers consider changing their policy<\/a>?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George is boasting that NATO has agreed to train an Iraqi security force. He must be basing his enthusiasm on the great success of NATO operations in Afghanistan: The alliance?s mission in Afghanistan is in trouble. Nearly a year after … Continue reading →<\/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-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}