{"id":760,"date":"2007-04-27T03:21:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/27\/calling-a-spade-a-big-nasty-spade\/"},"modified":"2007-04-27T03:21:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T09:21:49","slug":"calling-a-spade-a-big-nasty-spade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Calling A Spade A Big Nasty Spade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chertoff on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/562\/story\/1141979.html\">the Dems&#8217; mania for softpedaling the war on terror<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The impulse to minimize the threat we face is eerily reminiscent of the way America&#8217;s leaders played down the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini&#8217;s revolutionary fanaticism in the late 1970s. That naive approach ultimately foundered on the kidnapping of our diplomats in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>A sensible strategy against Al-Qaida and others in its ideological terror network begins with recognizing the scope of the threat they pose. Al-Qaida and its ilk have a world vision that is comparable to that of historical totalitarian ideologues but adapted to the 21st-century global network.<\/p>\n<p>Is this actually a war? Well, the short answer comes from our enemies. Osama bin Laden&#8217;s fatwa of Feb. 23, 1998, was a declaration of war, a self-serving accusation that America had somehow declared war on Islam, followed by a &#8220;ruling&#8221; to &#8220;kill the Americans and their allies &#8212; civilians and military &#8230; in any country where it is possible to do it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s on this misapprehension, I have to hope, that the Democrats will founder in &#8217;08.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chertoff on the Dems&#8217; mania for softpedaling the war on terror: The impulse to minimize the threat we face is eerily reminiscent of the way America&#8217;s leaders played down the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini&#8217;s revolutionary fanaticism in the late 1970s. That naive approach ultimately foundered on the kidnapping of our diplomats in Tehran. A sensible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}