{"id":1669,"date":"2005-07-11T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:39:46","slug":"that-all-you-got-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"That all you got, punk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Ing&#8217;s first novel <i>Soft Targets<\/i> (1979) suggested that against terrorists the most effective weapon is mockery.  Since the London bombs I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lnreview.co.uk\/news\/005167.php\">seen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/2005_07_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#112090840072827877\">hints<\/a> of such an approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/reason\/?p=773\">Arthur Silber<\/a> (<strong>2006<\/strong>: that link is gone bad, <a href=\"http:\/\/mparent7777.livejournal.com\/1007013.html\">here&#8217;s another<\/a>) gets in a dig at another faction that favors indiscriminate violence: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. one has the sense that this kind of hawk (which is most of them now) can&#8217;t grasp the nature of a convincing argument. It is as if they believe that by shouting, over and over again, &#8220;But terrorists are really, really, really, REALLY evil!,&#8221; they will finally convince everyone who doubts or criticizes Bush&#8217;s foreign adventures that Bush is entirely right about everything. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Ing&#8217;s first novel Soft Targets (1979) suggested that against terrorists the most effective weapon is mockery. Since the London bombs I&#8217;ve seen hints of such an approach. Arthur Silber (2006: that link is gone bad, here&#8217;s another) gets in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}