{"id":2276,"date":"2007-08-17T16:08:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T16:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2007-08-17T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T16:08:09","slug":"2007-8-17-the-iraqi-resistance-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"The Iraqi \u201cresistance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Economist article below gets something plain right: some of the killing in Iraq, such as the recent attacks against the Yazidi community (Angry Arab had a great post about them <a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/yazidis-misunderstood-sect.html\">here<\/a>), all too often gets ignored among the avalanche of death statistics. And there is an unfortunate and self-defeating confusion between supporting an armed resistance against the US occupation of Iraq and the apparently nihilistic killing of some groups that are engaging in simple ethnic cleansing. It&#8217;s a distinction that needs to be made, stressed and repeated, and condemnation of such attacks needs to come swiftly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9653044\">The Iraqi &#8220;resistance&#8221; | When murder is just plain murder | Economist.com<br \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Economist article below gets something plain right: some of the killing in Iraq, such as the recent attacks against the Yazidi community (Angry Arab had a great post about them <a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/yazidis-misunderstood-sect.html\">here<\/a>), all too often gets ignored among the avalanche of death statistics. And there is an unfortunate and self-defeating confusion between supporting an armed resistance against the US occupation of Iraq and the apparently nihilistic killing of some groups that are engaging in simple ethnic cleansing. It&#8217;s a distinction that needs to be made, stressed and repeated, and condemnation of such attacks needs to come swiftly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9653044\">The Iraqi &#8220;resistance&#8221; | When murder is just plain murder | Economist.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}