{"id":1280,"date":"2004-08-12T19:58:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T02:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/before-911\/"},"modified":"2004-08-12T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T02:58:39","slug":"before-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/before-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Before 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Youth Is Fleeting for Bush (washingtonpost.com)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A59072-2004Aug12_2.html\">Youth Is Fleeting for Bush (washingtonpost.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As President Bush took office in January 2001, Newsweek asked: &#8220;Which one of the following do you think should be Bush&#8217;s top defense and national security priority? Should his top priority be: Developing a high-tech missile defense system to protect the United States from nuclear attack (34 percent); reconfiguring US military forces so they can move more quickly to deal with crisis situations around the world (29 percent); or improving our ability to identify and counteract terrorist threats (31 percent)?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And in May 2001, the Pew Research Center asked: &#8220;Do you think that international terrorism is a major threat, a minor threat, or not a threat to the well being of the United States?&#8221; Prescient answer: 64% major threat, 27% minor threat, 4% not a threat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet some say we had no idea about the threat of terrorism before 9\/11. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Is Fleeting for Bush (washingtonpost.com) As President Bush took office in January 2001, Newsweek asked: &#8220;Which one of the following do you think should be Bush&#8217;s top defense and national security priority? Should his top priority be: Developing a high-tech missile defense system to protect the United States from nuclear attack (34 percent); reconfiguring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/before-911\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Before 9\/11<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}