{"id":350036,"date":"2010-02-22T07:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/22\/the-ground-zero-outrage\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:31:12","slug":"the-ground-zero-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350036","title":{"rendered":"The Ground Zero Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/21\/the_ground_zero_outrage_229816.html\" >The Ground Zero Outrage \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Scott Pelley, The Daily Beast<br \/>Enter your email address:Enter the recipients&apos; email addresses, separated by commas:Message:  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Lennihan \/ AP Photo \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNearly a decade after the 9\/11 attacks, not one project has been finished at the World Trade Center site. This Sunday on CBS, watch 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley take a trip to the seven-story pit.&ldquo;I describe it as a national disgrace.&rdquo; Larry Silverstein, the 78-year-old New York City real-estate tycoon, shook his head slowly as we stood over the muddy pit known around the world as ground&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/21\/new_afghanistan_strategy_sacrifices_troops_229825.html\" >New Afghanistan Strategy Sacrifices Troops \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Nolan Finley, Detroit News<br \/>Every American soldier should be pulled out of Afghanistan today. It&apos;s immoral to commit our troops &#8212; our children &#8212; to a war without doing everything possible to protect their lives. That&apos;s not happening in Afghanistan. The politicians and generals have decided to make the safety of Afghan citizens a higher priority than avoiding American deaths and injuries. They call it a &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; strategy, meaning that if the military objectives can be accomplished without inflicting suffering on the civilian population, the people will be more willing to cooperate in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/02\/21\/broken_039engagement039_in_middle_east_229814.html\" >Broken &#8216;Engagement&#8217; in Middle East \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ground Zero Outrage Scott Pelley, The Daily BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients&apos; email addresses, separated by commas:Message: Mark Lennihan \/ AP Photo Nearly a decade after the 9\/11 attacks, not one project has been finished at the World Trade Center site. This Sunday on CBS, watch 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350036","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=350036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}