{"id":5460,"date":"2010-05-21T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/05\/21\/marinestan\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:10:59","slug":"marinestan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5460","title":{"rendered":"Marinestan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19505,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/patriotpost.us\\\/opinion\\\/victor-davis-hanson\\\/2010\\\/05\\\/20\\\/marinestan&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Though my Dad served 28 years on active duty with the U.S. Army and was a veteran of both WWII and Vietnam, I\u2019m sure he\u2019d agree with Victor Davis Hanson on this one.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/victor-davis-hanson\/2010\/05\/20\/marinestan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/patriotpost.us\/opinion\/victor-davis-hanson\/2010\/05\/20\/marinestan\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, retired three-star Army General Karl W. Eikenberry, reportedly made a comment about there being 41 nations serving in Afghanistan &#8212; and a 42nd composed of the Marine Corps. One unnamed Obama administration official was quoted by the Washington Post as saying, &#8220;We have better operational coherence with virtually all of our NATO allies than we have with the U.S. Marine Corps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some officials call the new Marine enclave in Nimruz Province &#8220;Marinestan&#8221; &#8212; as if, out of a Kipling or Conrad novel, the Marines have gone rogue to set up their own independent province of operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though my Dad served 28 years on active duty with the U.S. Army and was a veteran of both&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}