{"id":14624,"date":"2015-11-21T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2015-11-21T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:51:01","slug":"the-onion-predicted-all-of-this-back-in-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14624","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Predicted All Of This Back in 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Onion Predicted All Of This Back in 2003<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/b>\u201c<\/b>George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more<\/i>,\u201d read a 2003 article on The Onion\u00a0a week after then-President George Bush launched the Iraq War. While a wide variety of organizations and individuals also rebuked that invasion, the satirical newspaper offered one of the most accurate assessments to date. So accurate, in fact, it all but predicted the rise of the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0mock-debate piece<\/a>, entitled,\u00a0\u201cThis War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won\u2019t,\u201d The Onion highlighted the very real risks of war.<\/p>\n

As fictional debater Nathan Eckert warned:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis war will not put an end to anti-Americanism; it will fan the flames of hatred even higher. It will not end the threat of weapons of mass destruction; it will make possible their further proliferation. And it will not lay the groundwork for the flourishing of democracy throughout the Mideast; it will harden the resolve of Arab states to drive out all Western (i.e. U.S.) influence<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you thought Osama bin Laden was bad, just wait until the countless children who become orphaned by U.S. bombs in the coming weeks are all grown up. Do you think they will forget what country dropped the bombs that killed their parents? In 10 or 15 years, we will look back fondly on the days when there were only a few thousand Middle Easterners dedicated to destroying the U.S. and willing to die for the fundamentalist cause. From this war, a million bin Ladens will bloom.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

More than a decade into the chronic conflict, the Onion\u2019s projects are eerily\u2014albeit predictably\u2014accurate. By 2006, national security experts were\u00a0warning<\/a>\u00a0the war was inspiring further radicalism. One of the Boston Marathon bombers was\u00a0radicalized by the Iraq War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Onion Predicted All Of This Back in 2003 \u00a0\u201cGeorge W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more,\u201d read a 2003 article on The Onion\u00a0a week after then-President George Bush launched the Iraq War. While a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[4873,442,6763,447,1455,10693,3588,793,6595,862],"class_list":["post-14624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bush","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-war","tag-islamic-state","tag-national-security","tag-prediction","tag-radicalization","tag-terrorism","tag-the-onion","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14625,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions\/14625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}