{"id":3158,"date":"2011-09-11T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2011-09-11T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:05:10","slug":"thats-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3158","title":{"rendered":"That’s what he said"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's the tenth anniversary of the atrocity of September 11 (I like this way of describing it).  Nothing to add, except that Paul Krugman's<\/a> sentiment seems (partially) right to me:<\/p>\n

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A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sure, they're just pundits.  Here is Krugman's colleague<\/a> Thomas Friedman (again, sorry to those who had mercifully forgotten these lines) on the relation between 9\/11 and the invasion of Iraq:<\/p>\n

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I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.
\n\t\t…
\n\t\tWe needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.
\n\t\t…<\/p>\n

What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad<\/strong>, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"<\/p>\n

You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna let it grow?<\/p>\n

Well Suck. On. This.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That Charlie was what this war was about.<\/strong> We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That's the real truth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Suck.On.This.  Indeed.  Now we are all sucking on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It's the tenth anniversary of the atrocity of September 11 (I like this way of describing it).  Nothing to add, except that Paul Krugman's sentiment seems (partially) right to me: A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — … Continue reading That’s what he said<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[410,194,1191,1995],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-410","tag-paul-krugman","tag-suck-on-this","tag-thomas-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","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=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}