{"id":8784,"date":"2002-10-19T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2002-10-19T17:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/19\/facing-up-to-evil\/"},"modified":"2002-10-19T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2002-10-19T17:24:47","slug":"facing-up-to-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/facing-up-to-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing up to evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Perhaps the massive bomb<br \/>\nblast on the Indonesian island of Bali will cause some second thoughts &#8212; or<br \/>\nperhaps first thoughts &#8212; by those who blamed the United States for having<br \/>\nprovoked the September 11th attacks by its actions and policies in the Middle<br \/>\nEast. Very few of those killed in Bali were Americans. What had all the<br \/>\nAustralians, Swedes, etc., done in the Middle East to provoke such terrorism<br \/>\nagainst innocent tourists? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Recently Pakistani Christians were killed in a terrorist<br \/>\nattack in Pakistan. What did Pakistani Christians have the power to do, even in<br \/>\nPakistan, much less in the Middle East?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans<br \/>\nhave become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based<br \/>\non envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others<br \/>\nfor the pain of one&#8217;s own insignificance. That has been a common thread in<br \/>\nthings as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic<br \/>\nterrorism.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=tso\">Thomas Sowell&#8217;s<br \/>\nFull column<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the massive bomb blast on the Indonesian island of Bali will cause some second thoughts &#8212; or perhaps first thoughts &#8212; by those who blamed the United States for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}