{"id":141,"date":"2009-04-13T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/al-qaeda-is-to-explosions-as-mtv-is-to-music\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:03:42","slug":"al-qaeda-is-to-explosions-as-mtv-is-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/al-qaeda-is-to-explosions-as-mtv-is-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Qaeda is to explosions as MTV is to music."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting around to reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fareedzakaria.com\/books\/index.html\">The Post-American World<\/a> by Fareed Zakaria. I opened it this morning on the drive to work (Chas drove, not me), and in the first 20 pages, I read something that I wanted to share before I get started with my day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the six years since 9\/11, Al Qaeda Central &#8212; the group led by Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri &#8212; has been unable to launch a major attack anywhere. It was a terrorist organization; it has become a communications compnay, producing the occasional videotape rather than actual terrorism. *<\/p>\n<p>* Even if an attack were to take place tomorrow, the fact that, for six years, Al Qaeda Central has been unable to organize one explosion anywhere is surely worth noting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Al Qaeda is to explosions as MTV is to music. Or, Al Qaeda : explosions :: MTV : music<\/p>\n<p>Burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting around to reading The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria. I opened it this morning on the drive to work (Chas drove, not me), and in the first 20 pages, I read something that I wanted to share before I get started with my day. In the six years since 9\/11, Al Qaeda &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/al-qaeda-is-to-explosions-as-mtv-is-to-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al Qaeda is to explosions as MTV is to music.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,264,88,399],"tags":[450,126,451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}