{"id":30987,"date":"2013-06-24T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=30987"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:12:10","slug":"political-satire-u-s-promises-smooth-transfer-of-quagmire-from-afghanistan-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/06\/political-satire-u-s-promises-smooth-transfer-of-quagmire-from-afghanistan-to-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"[Political Satire] U.S. Promises Smooth Transfer of Quagmire from Afghanistan to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supporters of the United States\u2019 twelve-year quagmire in Afghanistan cheered the news today [19 June 2013] that the U.S. would strive to achieve a seamless transfer of that quagmire to Syria, effective immediately.<\/i><\/p>\n

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U.S. servicemen inside a plane. (photo: Vyacheslav Oseledko\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to reassure those who were concerned that the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan signalled a wavering of the nation\u2019s commitment to being mired in open-ended military muddles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you, right here and right now, that the U.S. is every bit as determined to engage in an ill-defined, ill-advised and seemingly interminable mission in Syria as we were in Afghanistan,\u201d Gen. Dempsey said. \u201cAll that\u2019s changing is the Zip Code.\u201d<\/p>\n

General Dempsey said that the same tribal hatreds, sectarian violence, and untrustworthy alliances that made Afghanistan a quicksand-like morass are very much in evidence in Syria: \u201cI am confident that we could be involved in Syria for many, many years before figuring out why we are there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harland Dorrinson, executive director of the National Quagmire Institute, a think tank dedicated to promoting the United States\u2019 involvement in intractable conflicts around the globe, said he found General Dempsey\u2019s words about Syria reassuring: \u201cI felt a lot better after hearing what he had to say, and I know a lot of defense contractors felt the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Supporters of the US twelve-year quagmire in Afghanistan cheered the news that the U.S. would strive to achieve a seamless transfer of that quagmire to Syria, effective immediately. \u201cI can tell you, right here and right now, that the U.S. is every bit as determined to engage in an ill-defined, ill-advised and seemingly interminable mission in Syria as we were in Afghanistan,\u201d Gen. Dempsey said. \u201cAll that\u2019s changing is the Zip Code.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,65,56,219,66,204,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism","category-anglo-america","category-asia-pacific","category-central-asia-2","category-middle-east-north-africa","category-syria-in-context","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}