{"id":177,"date":"2006-08-31T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/31\/conversation-from-a-baghdad-suburb\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T22:13:20","slug":"conversation-from-a-baghdad-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/31\/conversation-from-a-baghdad-suburb\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation from a Baghdad suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omar writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/tale-of-two-tribes-gang-and-militia.html\"><p>Is it civil war in Iraq or is it not? And if it is, is there a way to stop it and if it&#8217;s not, is there a way to avert it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"citation\"><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/iraqthemodel.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/tale-of-two-tribes-gang-and-militia.html\">IRAQ THE MODEL<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder: would I be willing to organize and stand up to these criminals if they were in my community? I hope so, but given the same circumstances, I&#8217;m sure I would be tempted to \u201cplay it safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar writes: Is it civil war in Iraq or is it not? And if it is, is there a way to stop it and if it&#8217;s not, is there a way to avert it? IRAQ THE MODEL I wonder: would I be willing to organize and stand up to these criminals if they were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}