{"id":2735,"date":"2008-06-19T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2008-06-19T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T10:40:13","slug":"not-ready-for-prime-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready For Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allahpundit on Barack <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/18\/obama-pretty-psyched-for-a-nuremberg-trial-for-bin-laden\/\">Obama&#8217;s dangerous delusions about prosecuting<\/a> &#8211; I use the term advisedly &#8211; the war on terror&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which start with an implausibility&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>redeploying tens of thousands of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and having them shake their fists angrily in the direction of the Pakistani border?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and ends with a pointless metaphor&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what\u2019s a Nuremberg for Osama going to accomplish? Here\u2019s what it\u2019ll accomplish: It\u2019ll give him a world stage to inveigh against the U.S. just like his crony-in-chief did a few weeks ago <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/05\/ksm-sings-begs-for-death\/\">down at Gitmo<\/a>, secure in the knowledge that the media would carry the good word back to the Wahhabi faithful abroad. That\u2019s the other huge difference between now and Nuremberg. When Hermann Goering ranted on behalf of Nazism, there was no one left on his side to be inspired. Not so this time. If Obama\u2019s so hot for analogies to German trials, he should think less about 1945 and more about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beer_hall_putsch#Trial_and_prison\">1924<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone knows history begins in 1933, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahpundit on Barack Obama&#8217;s dangerous delusions about prosecuting &#8211; I use the term advisedly &#8211; the war on terror&#8230;: &#8230;which start with an implausibility&#8230;: redeploying tens of thousands of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and having them shake their fists angrily in the direction of the Pakistani border? &#8230;and ends with a pointless metaphor&#8230;: So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}