{"id":28257,"date":"2026-03-06T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28257"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:13:52","slug":"unconditional-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28257","title":{"rendered":"Unconditional surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose the leadership of Iran were to wake up one morning and suddenly decide, maybe after a nice breakfast and a round of golf, that they would settle for nothing short of &#8220;unconditional surrender&#8221; by the United States. To be fair, the U.S. has shown no interest, at least publicly, in surrendering. Instead, it has done the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the leadership in Tehran were to demand in a social media post that the U.S. capitulate, adding that afterward would come &#8220;the selection of a GREAT &amp; ACCEPTABLE Leader(s)&#8221;, and promise that Iran and its allies &#8220;will work tirelessly to bring America back from the brink of destruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the United States would agree to that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose the leadership of Iran were to wake up one morning and suddenly decide, maybe after a nice breakfast and a round of golf, that they would settle for nothing short of &#8220;unconditional surrender&#8221; by the United States. To be fair, the U.S. has shown no interest, at least publicly, in surrendering. Instead, it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unconditional surrender&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28258,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions\/28258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}