{"id":4822,"date":"2011-02-25T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:34:13","slug":"you-dont-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/you-dont-say\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Say . . . Gates Gets Wet As An Amphibian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should \u2018have his head examined,\u2019 as General MacArthur so delicately put it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/26\/world\/26gates.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Bob Gates, February 25, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Send-In-The-Armor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Send-In-The-Armor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dude, Now Would Be A Good Time To Call In The Armor!\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4837\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Send-In-The-Armor.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Send-In-The-Armor-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders &#8211; The most famous of which is &#8220;never get involved in a land war in Asia&#8221; &#8211; but only slightly less well-known is this: &#8220;Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line&#8221;! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha . . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vizzini, (1987)<\/p>\n<p><b>G<\/b>ates tells the Army that Krauthammer and the &#8216;Go Ashore&#8217; crowd are history.  And beneath the crude bureaucrat calculation, Gates seeks to return the U.S. to fundamental geopolitical realities: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=146\">we&#8217;re an amphibian power, not a continental one.<\/a> Too little, too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should \u2018have his head examined,\u2019 as General MacArthur so delicately put it. Bob Gates, February 25, 2011 You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[28,165,261,110,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-4822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-defense","7":"tag-afghanistan","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-war","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}