{"id":4072,"date":"2013-03-11T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2013-03-11T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T01:04:49","slug":"a-different-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4072","title":{"rendered":"A different explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/03\/11\/why-ex-presidents-should-stayhttp:\/\/\">George Whittman<\/a>, at the <em>American Spectator<\/em>, has a suggestion to Bill Clinton: Stay Home.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, Clinton makes for accommodationist foreign policy with Muslims. Clinton opined that Islamic terrorism in Northern Nigeria was caused by economic troubles, and he suggested economic development of the North as a means of reducing the trouble. Whittman rebuts Clinton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clinton must have known that his statement was a direct attack on Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President Goodluck Jonathan who had earlier responded sharply to CNN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Christiane Amanpour when she suggested poverty and corruption were behind the rise in Nigerian terrorism. President Jonathan had vigorously replied that <strong>Boko Haram was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153definitely not a result of poverty.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Boko Haram is a local terrorist group.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note, by the way, that the form of that explanation is as follows:\u00c2\u00a0 <em>q does not explain p, because p<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, being an Islamic terrorist is <em>causa sui.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Silly Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Whittman, at the American Spectator, has a suggestion to Bill Clinton: Stay Home.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, Clinton makes for accommodationist foreign policy with Muslims. Clinton opined that Islamic terrorism in Northern Nigeria was caused by economic troubles, and he suggested economic development of the North as a means of reducing the trouble. Whittman rebuts Clinton: Clinton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A different explanation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,519,38],"tags":[1609,1608,348],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-cause","category-ignorance-of-basic-matters-of-logic","category-oversimplified-cause","tag-bill-cinton","tag-circular-explanation","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}