{"id":698,"date":"2005-01-21T01:32:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","slug":"123what_are_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"1&#8230;2&#8230;3&#8230;What Are We Fighting For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/01\/20050120-1.html\">listened to the 2004 U.S. Presidential Inauguration<\/a> on the radio, and was neither thrilled nor depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Bush places a framework around the global issues we face &#8211; that the only real defense against terrorism is to eliminate it by addressing the root causes, which are not poverty but lack of freedom and ideologies of rage which are growing up in response to oppression.<\/p>\n<p>I like that.<\/p>\n<p>But a lot needs to go into the framework.I have consistently hammered Bush for failing to make the case for the war, and for failing to go beyond high rhetoric to tie our policies to that high framework, and for being absent when it comes time to stand up and speak both to us in the West and to the real audience &#8211; those in the Muslim world who are facing the choice between Islamist rage and a future. We have to offer them a choice; we have to paint that future they may choose as one that is both attainable and worth having.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to make one of my messages a regular one trying to keep track of what the Administration is doing on that front.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not enough. It&#8217;s not likely to ever be &#8220;enough&#8221;. But they damn well better do more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to the 2004 U.S. Presidential Inauguration on the radio, and was neither thrilled nor depressed. Bush places a framework around the global issues we face &#8211; that the only real defense against terrorism is to eliminate it by addressing the root causes, which are not poverty but lack of freedom and ideologies of [&hellip;]<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}