{"id":13677,"date":"2019-10-28T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:23:06","slug":"pieces-in-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/pieces-in-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Pieces in Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-28-Stiltons-Place-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-28-Stiltons-Place-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-28-Stiltons-Place-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-28-Stiltons-Place-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-28-Stiltons-Place.png 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Stilton&#8217;s Place<\/strong>, by Stilton Jarlsberg &#8212; October 28, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Saturday night &#8220;live&#8221; is what ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wasn&#8217;t  following a daring special forces operation last Saturday night. Troops  went in, cleared the compound &#8211; killing those who resisted &#8211; then  closed in on al-Baghdadi himself.<br><br> The ISIS leader scurried down a dead-end (literally) tunnel with three  of his children, then blew all of them to bits with a suicide vest.<br><\/em><br><em>President Trump, <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/10\/27\/islamic-statebaghdadi-dead-donald-trump-000300\" target=\"_blank\"><em>in a statement Sunday morning<\/em><\/a><em>,  made it clear that al-Baghdadi &#8220;died like a dog. He died like a coward.  Whimpering, screaming, and crying. The thug who tried so hard to  intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic  and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him.&#8221;<\/em><br><br><em>Trump&#8217;s willingness to take a metaphorical leak on al-Baghdadi&#8217;s grave  stands in stark contrast to Barack Obama&#8217;s more measured (to put it  mildly) statement upon the killing of Osama bin Laden. <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/osama-bin-laden-dead\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Obama described Osama as a terrorist and killer<\/em><\/a><em>,  but did not further personalize attacks on bin Laden&#8217;s character nor  the manner of his death. And we should note that as an additional show  of respect for bin Laden (and not Islam, because Obama specifically stated  that &#8220;Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader&#8221;),\u00a0 Obama ordered the terror  mastermind&#8217;s body to be washed and wrapped per Muslim tradition, then immediately buried at sea without further forensics. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete post including image, links and comment at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/stiltonsplace.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/pieces-in-our-time.html\">http:\/\/stiltonsplace.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/pieces-in-our-time.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stilton&#8217;s Place, by Stilton Jarlsberg &#8212; October 28, 2019 Excerpt: Saturday night &#8220;live&#8221; is what ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wasn&#8217;t following a daring special forces operation last Saturday night. Troops went in, cleared the compound &#8211; killing those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/pieces-in-our-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13679,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions\/13679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}