{"id":11,"date":"2007-07-24T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2007\/07\/russia-pulling-usa-out-of-iraq.html"},"modified":"2007-07-24T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T08:13:18","slug":"russia-pulling-usa-out-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/07\/russia-pulling-usa-out-of-iraq.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia Pulling USA Out of Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewfeiler.com\">brother<\/a> for pointing out on Saturday night what I&#8217;ve now seen elsewhere on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2007\/07\/time-magazine--.html\">web<\/a>.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IraqTime.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/186\/import\/IraqTime.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"235\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.TIME.com\">TIME<\/a> has a provocative cover this week showing a helicopter airlifting the A(merica) out of I-R-A-Q.  The image is clearly evocative of images of the USA airlifting out of Vietnam.  There&#8217;s only one problem.  The helicopter is an old Soviet Mi-24.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"helicopter3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/186\/import\/helicopter3.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to my brother for pointing out on Saturday night what I&#8217;ve now seen elsewhere on the web. TIME has a provocative cover this week showing a helicopter airlifting the A(merica) out of I-R-A-Q. The image is clearly evocative of images of the USA airlifting out of Vietnam. There&#8217;s only one problem. The helicopter is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russia Pulling USA Out of Iraq? - Feiler Faster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2007\/07\/russia-pulling-usa-out-of-iraq.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia Pulling USA Out of Iraq? - Feiler Faster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kudos to my brother for pointing out on Saturday night what I&#8217;ve now seen elsewhere on the web. 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