{"id":1852,"date":"2010-05-05T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2010-05-05T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T13:22:44","slug":"times_square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=532260\">Investors.com<\/a>&nbsp;posted an aritlce about the failed Times Square bombing and the things we need to learn from it.&nbsp; They listed a number of myths we seem to believe about terrorism in the United States.&nbsp; These are the myths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The only violence we have to worry about is that from the Tea Partiers or the right-wing extremists.<\/em>&nbsp; We saw this myth in the initial response from Mayor Bloomberg to the attack, stated in a interview with Katie Couric.&nbsp; You have to overlook a lot of history to believe this.<\/li>\n<li><em>American Muslims don&#8217;t participate in jihad.&nbsp; They come to this country because they love it.<\/em>&nbsp; Faisal Shahzad, the would-be bomber, is from Pakistan and became an American citizen last year.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Taliban can only carry out successful terrorist operations in South Asia.<\/em>&nbsp; It is no secret that the Taliban has been trying for years to recruit Americans to conduct terrorism in America.&nbsp; An American passport is a prized possession to the Taliban.&nbsp; Their goal is to begin to recruit blond, blue-eyed terrorists that will not be given a second glance by immigration officials.<\/li>\n<li><em>We can use drones to deal with training camps, safe houses, and terrorist leaders in Pakistan.<\/em>&nbsp; Unfortunately, there is never any substitute for boots on the ground.<\/li>\n<li><em>Shahzad is another al-Qaida wannabe&#8211;these people are incompetent and represent no threat.<\/em>&nbsp; The problem with this idea is that Al Qaeda keeps trying.&nbsp; The first attempt at the World Trade Center in 1993 failed, the second attempt in 2001 was successful.&nbsp; The Middle East mindset is long-term; America thinks in terms of days, weeks, and sometimes months&#8211;we don&#8217;t have the attention span for anything longer.&nbsp; We need to remember this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have avoided two serious terrorist attacks in the past five months due to dumb luck.&nbsp; We can&#8217;t depend solely on dumb luck to keep us safe in the future&#8211;at some point we have to get our act together in the area of anti-terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Investors.com&nbsp;posted an aritlce about the failed Times Square bombing and the things we need to learn from it.&nbsp; They listed a number of myths we seem to believe about terrorism in the United States.&nbsp; These are the myths: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}