{"id":2182,"date":"2010-01-05T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:28:47","slug":"historians-against-the-war-links-to-recent-articles-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2010\/01\/historians-against-the-war-links-to-recent-articles-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Historians Against the War: Links to Recent Articles of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historians Against the War: Links to Recent Articles of Interest<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2010\/01\/serial-catastrophes-in-afghanistan.html\">\u201cSerial Catastrophes in Afghanistan Threaten Obama Policy\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Juan Cole, Informed Comment web site, posted January 4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/focus\/2010\/01\/20101391534922682.html\">The $30bn Pair of Underpants<\/a><br \/>\nBy Mark LeVine, Aljazeera.net, posted January 4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/bacevich01012010.html\">\u201cObama\u2019s Post-Modern War of Attrition\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Andrew Bacevich, CounterPunch, January 1-3 edition, originally published in New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merip.org\/mero\/mero123109.html\">\u201cCatcher\u2019s Mitt: Obama, Pakistan and the Afghan Wars to Come\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Graham Usher, Middle East Report Online, posted December 31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/dec\/28\/afghanistan-1979-america-intervention\/print\">\u201cThe Moment That Changed Afghanistan\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Stephen Kinzer, The Guardian, posted December 28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalinterest.org\/Article.aspx?id=22602\">\u201cThe Revolution Will Be Mercantilized\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Ali Ansari, The National Interest online, Posted December 21<br \/>\non the Revolutionary Guard in Iran; the author teaches history at St. Andrews University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/notion\/507353\/print\">\u201cThe Best Argument for the Afghan War &#8211; and What\u2019s Wrong with It\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jon Wiener, The Nation blog, posted December 17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/10\/sorry_obama_afghanistans_your_vietnam\n\">\u201cObama\u2019s Indecent Interval: Despite the U.S. President\u2019s Pleas to the Contrary, the War in Afghanistan Looks More Like Vietnam than Ever\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason, Foreign Policy, December 10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/article.php\/jul_09_gibbs\n\">\u201cWas Kosovo the Good War?\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy David Gibbs, Tikkun, July-August 2009<br \/>\nThe author teaches history and government at the University of Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historians Against the War: Links to Recent Articles of Interest \u201cSerial Catastrophes in Afghanistan Threaten Obama Policy\u201d By Juan Cole, Informed Comment web site, posted January 4 The $30bn Pair of Underpants By Mark LeVine, Aljazeera.net, posted January 4 \u201cObama\u2019s Post-Modern War of Attrition\u201d By Andrew Bacevich, CounterPunch, January 1-3 edition, originally published in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[5196,6427,3407,6924,5195,398],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies","tag-afghanistan","tag-anti-war","tag-historians-against-the-war","tag-kosovo","tag-vietnam-war","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}