{"id":12,"date":"2008-08-12T20:16:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-08-12T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T20:16:20","slug":"moment_of_truth_in_iraq_by_mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Moment of Truth in Iraq  by Michael Yon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelyon-online.com\/\">Michael Yon<\/a>&#8216;s book <u>Moment of &#8216;Truth in Iraq<\/u>.&nbsp; It is a fantastic book.&nbsp; Michael is a former Green Beret who has spent more time embedded with US combat troops in Iraq&nbsp; than any any journalist in the world.&nbsp; The book offers a lot of insight into the war in Iraq and deals with the good, the bad, and the ugly.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The part of the book which totally impressed me is the part which shows why America is special.&nbsp; On page 143, Michael talks about what happened when the Amercan soldiers began to move into the Iraqi buildings.&nbsp; The buildings began to improve, because that&#8217;s what Americans do.&nbsp; The American &#8216;gift&#8217; that we have (that is so ingrained in us that we take it for granted) is the &#8220;can-do-mentality.&#8221;&nbsp; The belief that problems are made to be solved.&nbsp; The America that says &#8220;What can I do to solve this problem?&#8221;&nbsp; will be much more successful than the America that says &#8220;What can the government do to solve this problem?&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished Michael Yon&#8216;s book Moment of &#8216;Truth in Iraq.&nbsp; It is a fantastic book.&nbsp; Michael is a former Green Beret who has spent more time embedded with US combat troops in Iraq&nbsp; than any any journalist in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}