{"id":536,"date":"2008-07-02T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2011-04-16T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T21:25:37","slug":"a-warning-from-secretary-gates-our-grandchildren-will-be-battling-our-enemies-here-in-america-if-we-strike-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"A Warning from Secretary Gates: &#8220;Our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America&#8221; if we strike Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Seymour Hersh&#8217;s newest piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/07\/07\/080707fa_fact_hersh?printable=true\">the gradual escalation to a war with Iran<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a pre\u00ebmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, \u201cWe\u2019ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.\u201d Gates\u2019s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gates\u2019s answer, the senator told me, was \u201cLet\u2019s just say that I\u2019m here speaking for myself.\u201d (A spokesman for Gates confirmed that he discussed the consequences of a strike at the meeting, but would not address what he said, other than to dispute the senator\u2019s characterization.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Seymour Hersh&#8217;s newest piece on the gradual escalation to a war with Iran: A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,3,167,367,4],"tags":[440,439],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-iran","category-national-security","category-politics","tag-seymour-hersh","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-8E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}