{"id":2509,"date":"2008-05-20T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wars-hard-on-state-dept-defense-chief-says-npr\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:44:53","slug":"wars-hard-on-state-dept-defense-chief-says-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wars-hard-on-state-dept-defense-chief-says-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Wars Hard on State Dept., Defense Chief Says : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mine\">Let&#8217;s just give all the money we have to &#8220;Defense&#8221; (formerly, the War Department) and let them decide what programs, domestic and foreign, &#8220;keep us safe.&#8221; It would be efficient. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mine\">Duhbya and company have so decimated the system that Defense has to beg for money for State. You can also thank Donni &#8220;Big Dick&#8221; Rumsfeld and Condi Rice. peace, <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=90603028&amp;ft=1&amp;f=2\">Wars Hard on State Dept., Defense Chief Says : NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Wars Hard on State Dept., Defense Chief Says<\/h3>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2100727\">Michele Kelemen<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=2\">All Things Considered<\/a>, May 19, 2008 \u00b7 Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expressing concern that the State Department has become stretched too thin by the diplomatic demands of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Gates is arguing for more resources for Foggy Bottom.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=90603028&amp;ft=1&amp;f=2\">Wars Hard on State Dept., Defense Chief Says : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just give all the money we have to &#8220;Defense&#8221; (formerly, the War Department) and let them decide what programs, domestic and foreign, &#8220;keep us safe.&#8221; It would be efficient. Duhbya and company have so decimated the system that Defense has to beg for money for State. You can also thank Donni &#8220;Big Dick&#8221; Rumsfeld &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wars-hard-on-state-dept-defense-chief-says-npr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wars Hard on State Dept., Defense Chief Says : NPR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}