{"id":247,"date":"2004-10-08T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=247"},"modified":"2004-10-09T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T05:06:12","slug":"post-debate-aside-on-defeatist-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Post-Debate Aside on Defeatist Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading through other sites for their debate opinions, I came across this line from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsofwar.com\/archives\/2004\/10\/08\/2004-presidential-debate-2\/\">Blogs of War<\/a>&#8216;s live blogging by John Little:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>8:20pm CST &#8211; Is it just me or is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Win the peace\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one of the most annoying phrases of all time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ll rank it right up there with &#8220;exit strategy,&#8221; a phrase I&#8217;ve stated my opinion on <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.com\/index.php?p=94\">previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:  Yes, you can plan to &#8220;win the peace,&#8221; you can plan on every single contingency.  However, war is chaos and <em>perfect<\/em> planning for peace would require paralysis of action.  The same with having an exit strategy short of absolute victory.  Win the campaign, deal with the actual results;  win the war, achieve the established goals and make the peace and exit strategy desired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading through other sites for their debate opinions, I came across this line from Blogs of War&#8216;s live blogging by John Little: 8:20pm CST &#8211; Is it just me or is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Win the peace\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one of the most annoying phrases of all time. Well, I&#8217;ll rank it right up there with &#8220;exit strategy,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-04","category-general","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}