{"id":1719,"date":"2004-09-25T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2004-09-25T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T15:27:48","slug":"no-sign-of-peace-order-or-good-government-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/25\/no-sign-of-peace-order-or-good-government-here\/","title":{"rendered":"No sign of peace, order or good government here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">livejournal<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/giantlaser\/\">giantlaser<\/a>, a contractor in Iraq:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>We have 10 guards on staff at all times.  They live with us.  They are Kurdish, from areas 200-400 km north.  They have no local loyalties at all &#8211; no friends, no family, no one to apply pressure here.  While it is always possible they could be compromised, it is far less likely.<\/li>\n<li>We have house staff to do all local things we need, like run the generators, shop, fuel the cars, etc.<\/li>\n<li>When we leave, the guards sweep the street and secure the immediate area.<\/li>\n<li>We are armed at all times.  On foot, with a pistol.  In a car, with an AK-47 as well.<\/li>\n<li>We now take two cars with at least 3 guards.  And we&#8217;ve appointed the most experienced and capable guards as our personal ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound much like ensuring\/enduring freedom or democracy to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the livejournal of giantlaser, a contractor in Iraq: We have 10 guards on staff at all times. They live with us. They are Kurdish, from areas 200-400 km north. They have no local loyalties at all &#8211; no friends, no family, no one to apply pressure here. While it is always possible they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[501,1813],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-iraq","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-rJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}