{"id":577,"date":"2006-03-13T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/13\/saracen_on_madeleine_bunting_in_todays_guardian"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:55:44","slug":"saracen_on_madeleine_bunting_in_todays_guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/13\/saracen_on_madeleine_bunting_in_todays_guardian","title":{"rendered":"Saracen on Madeleine Bunting in today&#8217;s Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saracen.nu\/\">Saracen<\/a> has blogged at length about an article I was going to briefly link to: Madeleine Bunting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,,1729394,00.html\">in today&#39;s Guardian<\/a> on how the &quot;cheerleaders&quot; for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have produced what she calls &quot;the most efficient narco-economy in the world&quot;, supplying 90% of Europe&#39;s heroin, and the situation we&#39;ve all heard of in Iraq, demand that we all forget how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place.  (He also has a comment on the Gary Younge article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/03\/06\/picking_on_the_powerless_isnt\">I linked<\/a> last week.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First de-contextualisation, now forget the past at Saracen.nu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saracen.nu\/2006\/03\/13\/first-de-contextualisation-now-forget-the-past\/\">Saracen.nu: First de-contextualisation, now forget the past<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saracen has blogged at length about an article I was going to briefly link to: Madeleine Bunting in today&#39;s Guardian on how the &quot;cheerleaders&quot; for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have produced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war_in_iraq_afghanistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42540,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/42540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}