{"id":1428,"date":"2007-05-08T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-05-08T02:11:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:11:44","slug":"watch_this_spac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Watch This Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at liberal security site Democracyarsenal<\/a>, guest blogger David Schanzer<\/a> posts ‘Game On Now For National Security Debate<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Democratic frontrunners did little to dispel this notion during the first presidential candidates’ debate. Obama chose to talk about the Hurricane Katrina response when asked the first thing he would do after a terrorist attack on U.S. soil And, when Brian Williams served up the Giuliani quotes on a silver platter to Clinton, she did not discuss how to defeat al Qaeda or combat the spread of the global jihadist movement, but instead expounded on the virtues of greater port and subway security. <\/p>\n

\nThis isn’t going to cut it in a general election. Because of the still lingering security gap Democrats face, progressives cannot wait until the general election to start speaking convincingly about the threats the nation faces and how to deal with them. Promising to end the Iraq war (as if that could actually be accomplished), will not necessarily be enough to defeat a Republican opponent who is not Bush and will most certainly have his own plan to wind down the war.<\/p>\n

\nNow is the time to get our game day faces on for the national security debate. And we will have to do better than our congressional leaders and presidential candidates have done in this regard since the election. In my posts over the next three weeks, I’ll be discussing some ideas about what I think progressives ought to be saying to prevail in this debate. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll be checking back there and reading his posts with interest. Of course, he’s tagged as a ‘concern troll’ in the second paragraph. That alone may be reason to support him. I’m looking forward to his posts, and to engaging him in what I hope will be a useful and interesting discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democracyarsenal will be posting a series on a liberal antiterrorism strategy. Armed Liberal is (seriously) looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}