{"id":102,"date":"2005-06-29T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2006-04-07T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T05:35:58","slug":"911-and-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 and Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew C. McCarthy on Iraq<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s All About 9\/11<br \/>\nThe president links Iraq and al Qaeda \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the usual suspects moan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;On September 12, 2001, no one in America cared about whether there would be enough Sunni participation in a fledgling Iraqi democracy if Saddam were ever toppled. No one in lower Manhattan cared whether the electricity would work in Baghdad, or whether Muqtada al-Sadr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shiite militia could be coaxed into a political process. They cared about smashing terrorists and the states that supported them for the purpose of promoting American national security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/mccarthy\/mccarthy200506290912.asp\">Andrew C. McCarthy on Iraq on National Review Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew C. McCarthy on Iraq It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s All About 9\/11 The president links Iraq and al Qaeda \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the usual suspects moan. &#8230;On September 12, 2001, no one in America cared about whether there would be enough Sunni participation in a fledgling Iraqi democracy if Saddam were ever toppled. No one in lower Manhattan cared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}