{"id":381,"date":"2016-06-15T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=381"},"modified":"2016-06-15T08:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:44:36","slug":"afghanistan-as-profit-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan as profit center"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8222;It just hits you like a ton of bricks when you think about it,&#8220; fumed a senior officer who has been in the military for nearly thirty years and was in Afghanistan when he had this revelation. &#8222;The Department of Defense is no longer a war fighting organization, it&#8217;s a business enterprise. Afghanistan is a great example of it. There&#8217;s so much money being made off this place.&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014Dana Priest and William Arkin,\u00a0<em>Top Secret America<\/em>, (New York: Little, Brown &amp; Co., 2011), 188.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;It just hits you like a ton of bricks when you think about it,&#8220; fumed a senior officer who has been in the military for nearly thirty years and was in Afghanistan when he had this revelation. &#8222;The Department of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=381\">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-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}