{"id":134,"date":"2015-01-19T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2015-01-19T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:09:17","slug":"endless-american-wars-have-been-good-business-for-amman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Endless American wars have been good business for Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[E]ndless American wars have been good business for Amman and many of the Middle East\u2019s other newly gleaming cities.\u00a0 Money from taxpayers in Wichita and Denver and Phoenix gets routed through the Pentagon and CIA and then ends up here, or in Baghdad or Dubai, or Doha or Kabul or Beirut, in the hands of contractors, subcontractors, their local business partners, local sheikhs, local Mukhabarat officers, local oil smugglers, local drug dealers \u2014 money that funds construction and real estate speculation in a few choice luxury districts, buildings\u00a0that go up thanks to the sweat of imported Filipino and Bangladeshi workers kept on the job by their Saudi and Emirati bosses who confiscate their passports.\u00a0 In Wichita, Denver and Phoenix, meanwhile, McDonald\u2019s is hiring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">James Risen, <em>Pay Any Price<\/em>, (New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014), 124.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[E]ndless American wars have been good business for Amman and many of the Middle East\u2019s other newly gleaming cities.\u00a0 Money from taxpayers in Wichita and Denver and Phoenix gets routed through the Pentagon and CIA and then ends up here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=134\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}