{"id":377,"date":"2004-09-13T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=377"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"the_american_ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/the_american_ra\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Raj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Firangpolicypundit<\/i> Fareed Zakaria notes that the American strategy of playing off Shia vs. Sunni in Iraq resembles that of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5973045\/site\/newsweek\/\">British India<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehigh.edu\/~amsp\/2004\/09\/fareed-zakaria-british-raj-vs-american.html\">Amardeep Singh<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The intractable security problems in Sunni areas coupled with some success in Shia ones might lead the Iraqi government (and Washington) toward a &#8220;Shia strategy&#8221; in Iraq&#8230; In many of its colonies the British would often favor a single group as a quick means of gaining stability. Almost always the results were ruinous\u00c2\u2014a trail of civil war and bloodshed.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firangpolicypundit Fareed Zakaria notes that the American strategy of playing off Shia vs. Sunni in Iraq resembles that of British India (via Amardeep Singh): The intractable security problems in Sunni areas coupled with some success in Shia ones might lead &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/the_american_ra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}