{"id":20,"date":"2011-03-24T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-08-06T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T02:14:17","slug":"cookies-and-smileys-vs-tomahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/24\/cookies-and-smileys-vs-tomahawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies and Smileys vs. Tomahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re at war with Libya.\u00c2\u00a0 Could it be because<strong> 80% of Europe&#8217;s Oil comes from Libya<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>If we cared so much about the Libyan people, why didn&#8217;t we invade the Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people died?<\/p>\n<p>Because the Chinese controlled Sudan&#8217;s oil already.<\/p>\n<p>In the Sudan, Obama&#8217;s special envoy , retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration once actually said about the Sudanese government:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to think about giving out cookies,&#8221; said Gration, who was  appointed in March. &#8220;Kids, countries &#8212; they react to gold stars, smiley  faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But now when our European friends&#8217; oil spigot is turned off we&#8217;re sending<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cruise-missile-intro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21\" title=\"Cruise-missile-intro\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cruise-missile-intro-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"tomahawk missile\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cruise-missile-intro-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Cruise-missile-intro.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> s<\/p>\n<p>instead of<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-star-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22\" title=\"gold-star-2\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-star-2-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-star-2-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-star-2-1024x974.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re at war with Libya.\u00c2\u00a0 Could it be because 80% of Europe&#8217;s Oil comes from Libya? If we cared so much about the Libyan people, why didn&#8217;t we invade the Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people died? Because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/24\/cookies-and-smileys-vs-tomahawks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,135],"tags":[14,15,12,13],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-comedy","category-troutboysblog","tag-middle-east","tag-oil","tag-politics","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}