{"id":2029,"date":"2006-11-08T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-terrorists-win-and-america-loses-i-dont-think-so\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:45:12","slug":"the-terrorists-win-and-america-loses-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-terrorists-win-and-america-loses-i-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"The terrorists win and America loses? I don&#8217;t think so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061106\/OPINION05\/611060307\/1006\/OPINION\">Tallahassee Democrat<\/a> By Eugene Robinson, WASHINGTON POST<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush used to claim he was <strong class=\"highlight\">&#8221;a uniter, not a divider,&#8221;<\/strong> but that was a long time ago. These days, he&#8217;d probably try to deny the quote the same way he tried to disown &#8221;stay the course.&#8221; The Karl Rove formula for political victory has been to draw a bright line between &#8221;us&#8221; and &#8221;them&#8221; and then paint those on the other side not as opponents but as monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Thus Bush openly accused those who disagree with his policy in Iraq of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. &#8221;The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses,&#8221; he said the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee Democrat By Eugene Robinson, WASHINGTON POST George W. Bush used to claim he was &#8221;a uniter, not a divider,&#8221; but that was a long time ago. These days, he&#8217;d probably try to deny the quote the same way he tried to disown &#8221;stay the course.&#8221; The Karl Rove formula for political victory has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-terrorists-win-and-america-loses-i-dont-think-so\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The terrorists win and America loses? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}