{"id":209,"date":"2006-07-26T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=209"},"modified":"2006-07-26T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T12:56:15","slug":"when-do-wars-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/when-do-wars-end\/","title":{"rendered":"When Do Wars End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/bargaining_with_the_devil.html\">this assertion<\/a>?<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Wars end when both sides decide they can gain more from a negotiated settlement than from continued fighting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s how some wars end.<\/p>\n<p>I thought others end when one side beat and the other side lost.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n<p><i>I was ready to finalize and publish this post . . . .<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Then I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/newt_gingrich_declares_world_w.html\">this that seems to contradict<\/a> what the above fellow wrote:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>We are not going to beat this enemy unless we get serious about it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>So this guy thinks war is about beating. Somehow I doubt he meant scoring a diplomatic win.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, whatever.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think of this assertion? Wars end when both sides decide they can gain more from a negotiated settlement than from continued fighting. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s how some wars end. I thought others end when one side beat and the other side lost. Whatever. I was ready to finalize and publish this post &#8230; <a title=\"When Do Wars End?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/when-do-wars-end\/\" aria-label=\"More on When Do Wars End?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-3n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}