{"id":22052,"date":"2026-04-08T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22052"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:04:24","slug":"the-dumbest-decision-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22052","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbest Decision in American History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For Iran to win, all they have to do is survive and maintain an ability to commit terror attacks. Thus far, the US has failed to end Iran&#8217;s ability to hit Israel, hit gulf states, hit US bases, and stop shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dumbest Decision in American History\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-QoNbWhZClM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Iran to win, all they have to do is survive and maintain an ability to commit terror attacks. Thus far, the US has failed to end Iran&#8217;s ability to hit Israel, hit gulf states, hit US bases, and stop shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-QoNbWhZClM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,221,272,355,314,156,391,259,576,1265,578,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-22052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-oil-price","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22053,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22052\/revisions\/22053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}