{"id":170978,"date":"2010-01-12T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/12\/up-to-a-point-mr-president\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T12:31:13","slug":"up-to-a-point-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170978","title":{"rendered":"Up to a Point, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/11\/imagine_waugh_writing_about_the_christmas_bomber_99841.html\" >Up to a Point, Mr. President \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Michael Barone, Washington Examiner<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/11\/health_care_tall_tales_99817.html\" >Health Care Tall Tales \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Robert Robb, Arizona Republic<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/01\/11\/don039t_panic_fear_is_al-qaeda039s_real_goal_227521.html\" >Don&#8217;t Panic. Fear is al-Qaeda&#8217;s Real Goal \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post<br \/>In responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Sen. Dianne Feinstein voiced the feelings of many when she said that to prevent such situations, &quot;I&apos;d rather overreact than underreact.&quot; This appears to be the consensus view in Washington, but it is quite wrong. The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction. Its real aim is not to kill the hundreds of people directly targeted but to sow fear in the rest of the population. Terrorism is an unusual military tactic in that it depends on the response of the onlookers. If we are not terrorized,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to a Point, Mr. President Michael Barone, Washington Examiner Health Care Tall Tales Robert Robb, Arizona Republic Don&#8217;t Panic. Fear is al-Qaeda&#8217;s Real Goal Fareed Zakaria, Washington PostIn responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Sen. Dianne Feinstein voiced the feelings of many when she said that to prevent such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170978","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}