{"id":1018,"date":"2011-05-09T20:15:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2011-05-09T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:21:34","slug":"somebody-got-some-splainin-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Somebody Got Some &#8216;Splainin To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/10\/world\/asia\/10intel.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">the New York Times is reporting<\/a> that the force sent into Pakistan to take out Osama bin Laden was beefed up and overequipped &#8220;to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops.&#8221; This on the heels of word that Pakistan is deeply concerned (read: butt-hurt and pissy) about violations of its sovereignty. And to their credit, the Obama administration <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/05\/white-house-to-pakistan-no-apologies-for-obl-raid.php?ref=fpblg\">isn&#8217;t taking the bait.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably a good thing Rahm Emmanuel has rolled out already. Because really, what should be happening at this point is somebody getting the president of Pakistan on the phone, saying &#8220;Please hold for the President of the United States,&#8221; and then Obama opening his remarks with &#8220;You want to explain why Osama bin Laden was living a hundred yards from your military academy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To borrow a line from <i>Pulp Fiction<\/i>, Pakistan just lost its LA privileges. They have nukes? Fuck that shit, North Korea has nukes, and we don&#8217;t make nice with them. India has nukes, a democratic system of government, almost as many potential consumers as China, a critical high-tech sector and didn&#8217;t have the world&#8217;s most wanted man living in a GIANT FUCKING WALLED COMPOUND NEXT DOOR TO THEIR MILITARY ACADEMY without telling us.<\/p>\n<p>I know whose side I&#8217;d rather take. Whoever&#8217;s in charge in Pakistan &#8211; and it sure as hell isn&#8217;t their President &#8211; needs to start talking fast. We violated your sovereignty? Fuck you, convince me you really didn&#8217;t know where the head of al-Qaeda was for six years, and this had better be fucking <i>brilliant<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now the New York Times is reporting that the force sent into Pakistan to take out Osama bin Laden was beefed up and overequipped &#8220;to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops.&#8221; This on the heels of word that Pakistan is deeply concerned (read: butt-hurt and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=1018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Somebody Got Some &#8216;Splainin To Do&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}