{"id":238,"date":"2006-09-13T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-09-13T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:46:17","slug":"put-on-a-bridle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Put on a bridle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a story about reasoning poorly and uncivilly is getting some momentum.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14800959\/site\/newsweek\/print\/1\/displaymode\/1098\/\">Newsweek<\/a> had this to say about Bush&#8217;s rhetorical strategy:<\/p>\n<p>>Bush\u2019s rhetorical strategy is twofold: first, issue a statement of fact about your own position; second, caricature your opponents to look foolish. First, the statement of fact: \u201cWe\u2019re training Iraqi troops so they can defend their nation. We\u2019re helping Iraq\u2019s unity government grow in strength and serve its people. We will not leave until this work is done,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>>Second, the caricature: \u201cWhatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone,\u201d he said. \u201cThey will not leave us alone. They will follow us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>>Are there any senior Democrats who have said that troops should leave Iraq in the hope that \u201cterrorists would leave us alone?\u201d The Democratic argument is that troops should leave Iraq either to encourage Iraqis to take control, or simply to avoid greater casualties in what looks like a low-grade civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Only it&#8217;s more than 6 years too late.  He has always done this.  The people who support him do this.  The press has said nothing until now.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?cat=12\">Shame.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a story about reasoning poorly and uncivilly is getting some momentum. Newsweek had this to say about Bush&#8217;s rhetorical strategy: >Bush\u2019s rhetorical strategy is twofold: first, issue a statement of fact about your own position; second, caricature your opponents to look foolish. First, the statement of fact: \u201cWe\u2019re training Iraqi troops so they can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Put on a bridle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}