{"id":2304,"date":"2008-10-26T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/dispatch-from-michael-yon\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T16:28:06","slug":"dispatch-from-michael-yon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/dispatch-from-michael-yon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from Michael Yon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A war correspondent in a position to know about both the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts, passes on these important concerns about electing an inexperienced &#8216;dove&#8217; to the White House. In addition to Senator Obama&#8217;s liberal positions on the Second Amendment and his connections to terrorists and race-baiting activists, we must not forget how disastrous the international situation can become.<\/p>\n<blockquote style='font-size: 1em'><p>Greetings,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/mike-yon.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Yon\" class='right' \/>The outcome of the upcoming U.S. elections will have a profound impact on the war.  Meanwhile, the day to day fighting continues. If Senator Obama is elected, I expect to spend a great deal of time covering the fighting.  Judging by his words, Senator Obama must be watched closely or we might see some terrible decisions.  I expect 2009 to be the worst year so far in the Af-Pak war, which has serious potential to eventually become far worse than Iraq ever was.  If Senator McCain is elected, I&#8217;ll breathe easier in regard to the war.  <\/p>\n<p>For a short dispatch, please click, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/Dispatches\/439966906575\/\">Are you Connected<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Very Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Michael Yon<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A war correspondent in a position to know about both the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts, passes on these important concerns about electing an inexperienced &#8216;dove&#8217; to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,12,24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign","category-international","category-war-on-terror","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}