{"id":167052,"date":"2010-01-11T19:16:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010767997_dickcheneyeditorialcartoon.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-01-11T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:16:15","slug":"dick-cheney-editorial-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167052","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney editorial cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Praise for Cheney\u2019s outspoken criticism of Obama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can an editorial cartoon [Opinion, Jan. 10] be more insulting to people who care deeply about stopping terrorists from killing innocent Americans?<\/p>\n<p>The depiction of Dick Cheney \u2014 doubting Barack Obama\u2019s resolve to prevent future attacks next to the towers seconds before the deaths of 3,000 innocent people \u2014 implies what? That Obama could have prevented the attacks? That George W. Bush and Cheney failed to protect us? Few sane Americans blamed Bush for 9\/11 when the multiyear plot escaped detection by virtually all layers of government during two administrations. We had to \u2014 and must continue to \u2014 think and act differently toward terrorism from that date on.<\/p>\n<p>What Cheney argues now is that Obama\u2019s efforts to close Gitmo, conduct civil trials for terrorists and to forgo interrogations of the underwear bomber will not make us safer. Obama\u2019s refusal to refer to our struggle as a \u201cwar on terror\u201d or its combatants as \u201cIslamist extremists\u201d denies the obvious and taints his approach to defeat and destroy this enemy who plots to kill Americans. We cannot afford to be weak in words or actions against them.<\/p>\n<p>We were safe from significant attacks during the post-9\/11 Bush-Cheney years and I hope and pray that Obama can claim as much after he is replaced. Innocent lives depend upon it and I applaud Cheney for speaking out about our national security.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 K.C. Stromgren, Sammamish<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise for Cheney\u2019s outspoken criticism of Obama Can an editorial cartoon [Opinion, Jan. 10] be more insulting to people who care deeply about stopping terrorists from killing innocent Americans? The depiction of Dick Cheney \u2014 doubting Barack Obama\u2019s resolve to prevent future attacks next to the towers seconds before the deaths of 3,000 innocent people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}