{"id":3976,"date":"2010-02-20T00:13:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2010-02-20T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:43:01","slug":"the-exploding-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-exploding-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exploding Donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his brilliant book, The Forever War<\/a><\/i>, Dexter Filkins informs us that DBIED can stand for either Dog-Borne Improvised Explosive Device or Donkey-Borne Improvised Explosive Device. In a passage that I feel provides a perfect metaphor for the War on Terror, he writes:<\/p>\n

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In the fall of 2005 some marines discovered a donkey walking around Ramadi [in Iraq] with a suicide belt on. They didn’t want to kill it, of course, but every time they tried to get close enough to remove the suicide belt, the donkey scampered away. They they tried using a robot, one of those bomb-disposal things, which tried to waddle up to the donkey and defuse the payload, but the robot, too, kept scaring the donkey away. Finally the marines shot the donkey. It exploded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And so it goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his brilliant book, The Forever War<\/a><\/i>, Dexter Filkins informs us that DBIED can stand for either Dog-Borne Improvised Explosive Device or Donkey-Borne Improvised Explosive Device. In a passage that I feel provides a perfect metaphor for the War on Terror, he writes:<\/p>\n

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In the fall of 2005 some marines discovered a donkey walking around Ramadi [in Iraq] with a suicide belt on. They didn’t want to kill it, of course, but every time they tried to get close enough to remove the suicide belt, the donkey scampered away. They they tried using a robot, one of those bomb-disposal things, which tried to waddle up to the donkey and defuse the payload, but the robot, too, kept scaring the donkey away. Finally the marines shot the donkey. It exploded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And so it goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Exploding Donkey - India Uncut<\/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:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-exploding-donkey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Exploding Donkey - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In his brilliant book, The Forever War, Dexter Filkins informs us that DBIED can stand for either Dog-Borne Improvised Explosive Device or Donkey-Borne Improvised Explosive Device. 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