{"id":1574,"date":"2005-07-08T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T12:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2005-07-08T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T12:18:49","slug":"bomb-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2005\/07\/07\/blair\/index.html\">Salon<\/a> if anyone&#8217;s interested. Not very coherent, but not notably wrong, either. I do wish I had been closer to the action. I know it sounds callous, but that&#8217;s what journalists do. I want to <em>see,<\/em> not watch things on television.<\/p>\n\n<p>I note that <em>Salon,<\/em> just as much as everyone else, immediately fitted the bombs into their preferred narrative: in their case, that warmongers will be punished by the peace-loving electorate for their crimes.<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup> I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to happen. Even if it did, I don&#8217;t think it would diminish our danger much. Though it is true that there are now far more and better-trained terrorists than if we had not invaded Iraq, it doesn&#8217;t follow that there will be fewer if we pull out. It may just encourage them.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup> Dr Baber, who should know better, said much <a href=\"http:\/\/theenlightenmentproject.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/good-bye-tony-rush-hour-strike-wounds.html\">the same.<\/a> But if Blair is replaced, it won&#8217;t be by an anti-war leader. We&#8217;re too far in for that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are up at Salon if anyone&#8217;s interested. Not very coherent, but not notably wrong, either. I do wish I had been closer to the action. I know it sounds callous, but that&#8217;s what journalists do. I want to see, not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}