{"id":5114,"date":"2023-03-14T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2023-03-14T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:04:42","slug":"long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/03\/14\/long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/iraq-war-20-years-on\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian &#8211; Iraq war: 20 years on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq-still-looms-over-international-order\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c71bb7d9b3bcea68875286768bd106755819680\/0_32_2000_1280\/master\/2000.jpg?width=620&#038;quality=45&#038;dpr=2&#038;s=none\" alt=\"Iraqis loot a US army supply train near Falluja in December 2003. Photograph: Khalid Mohammed\/AP\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brown University\u2019s Costs of War Project estimates that the taxpayer bill for post-9\/11 US wars reached $8tn, representing a profound diversion from civilian spending. About 400,000 Iraqis died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/iraq-war-20-years-on\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian &#8211; Iraq war: 20 years on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; Iraq war: 20 years on Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order Brown University\u2019s Costs of War Project estimates that the taxpayer bill for post-9\/11 US wars reached $8tn, representing a profound diversion from civilian spending. About 400,000 Iraqis died. Guardian &#8211; Iraq war: 20 years on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3825,13,14,17,18],"tags":[4403,4402,4395,4408,4391,4396,4407,4392,4393,4401,4389,882,4390,4394,4388,4398,4397,4399,4400,4404,4406,4405,4075],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5114","6":"format-standard","7":"category-history","8":"category-politics","9":"category-racism","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"category-this-day-in-history","12":"post_tag-arab-spring","13":"post_tag-bashar-al-assad","14":"post_tag-chaos","15":"post_tag-condoleeza-rice","16":"post_tag-david-petraeus","17":"post_tag-de-baathification","18":"post_tag-gaddafi","19":"post_tag-george-bush","20":"post_tag-hubris","21":"post_tag-insurgency","22":"post_tag-invasion","23":"post_tag-iraq","24":"post_tag-iraqis","25":"post_tag-liberal-interventionism","26":"post_tag-march-20-2003","27":"post_tag-saddam","28":"post_tag-sanctions","29":"post_tag-shia","30":"post_tag-sunni","31":"post_tag-tehran","32":"post_tag-tony-blair","33":"post_tag-unilateralism","34":"post_tag-vladimir-putin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}