{"id":3505,"date":"2010-09-11T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2010-09-11T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:27:23","slug":"the-bogeyman-vs-the-actual-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/09\/11\/the-bogeyman-vs-the-actual-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"The bogeyman vs. the actual enemy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spend a great deal of time being warned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogeyman\">bogeyman<\/a> by the right. It&#8217;s seldom we hear much about the actual enemy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1071284,00.html\">Time<\/a> magazine: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet in other ways, [Mohammed] al-Qahtani emerges as an innocent abroad&#8211;uneducated, almost from another era. He asks whether the sun revolves around the earth. He wonders about dinosaurs and is told of their history and demise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/09\/13\/100913fa_fact_mcdermott\">The New Yorker<\/a> magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As it turns out, [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] is earthy, slick in a way, but na\u00efve, and seemingly motivated as much by pathology as ideology. Fouda describes Mohammed&#8217;s Arabic as crude and colloquial and his knowledge if Islamic texts as almost nonexistent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His plots were scattered, frenetic, even feral; they had an almost random quality&#8230; The mastermind of 9\/11 seems to have no grand strategy, or, really, any strategy at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spend a great deal of time being warned about the bogeyman by the right. It&#8217;s seldom we hear much about the actual enemy. Time magazine: Yet in other ways, [Mohammed] al-Qahtani emerges as an innocent abroad&#8211;uneducated, almost from another era. He asks whether the sun revolves around the earth. He wonders about dinosaurs and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}