{"id":2000,"date":"2006-07-06T23:49:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T03:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/more_lessons_learned\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T23:49:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T03:49:57","slug":"more_lessons_learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/more_lessons_learned\/","title":{"rendered":"More Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/07\/20060706.html\">President Bush today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We take &#8212; and we all should take threats seriously. That&#8217;s one of the lessons of September the 11th, is that what takes place in other parts of the world can come home to hurt the American people. See, a failed government in Afghanistan enabled plotters and planners to train and them come and kill 3,000 of our citizens. And so it used to be that&#8217;s it&#8217;s okay if something were happening from afar, oceans could protect us. I presume that&#8217;s how some in Canada used to feel. The lesson of September the 11th is, is that we&#8217;re vulnerable, and therefore, we&#8217;ve got to deal with each threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A lesson Bush learned from September the 11th: that the oceans don&#8217;t protect us from threats.  Was he talking about nerve gas found in Iraq?  An anthrax stash found in Afghanistan?  No, he was talking about North Korea test launching a missile which could supposedly travel 5,000 miles.<br \/>\nCan we infer from Bush&#8217;s  comment that on September 10, 2001, he wasn&#8217;t aware that a nuclear state with long-range missiles was a threat to America?  Really, hasn&#8217;t he played the September the 11th card enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/more_lessons_learned\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to More Lessons Learned\"><p>Here&#8217;s President Bush today: We take &#8212; and we all should take threats seriously. That&#8217;s one of the lessons of September the 11th, is that what takes place in other parts of the world can come home to hurt the American people. See, a failed government in Afghanistan enabled plotters and planners to train and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}