{"id":170,"date":"2003-04-13T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2003-04-13T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T04:48:00","slug":"170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SOMEBODY&#8217;S THINKING CAP ( or helmet) IS IN PLACE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From the NY TIMES<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Colonel Pomfret said the marines were already reaching out to local leaders, mainly in the mosques. He said they were focusing on lower-level leaders who were in touch with their neighborhoods. He said the effort entailed the extensive use of Arabic translators, as there was a realization that the Americans should not rely too heavily on Iraqi officials just because they speak English. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to take the pulse of the street,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to rely only on the English-speaking Iraqi leaders, because a lot of them were involved in the regime.&#8221; <\/b><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMEBODY&#8217;S THINKING CAP ( or helmet) IS IN PLACE From the NY TIMES &#8220;Colonel Pomfret said the marines were already reaching out to local leaders, mainly in the mosques. He said they were focusing on lower-level leaders who were in touch with their neighborhoods. He said the effort entailed the extensive use of Arabic translators, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}