{"id":2870,"date":"2004-10-11T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T22:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/11\/of-nuance-and-nuisances\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:46:10","slug":"of-nuance-and-nuisances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/11\/of-nuance-and-nuisances\/","title":{"rendered":"Of nuance and nuisances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10071,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2004\\\/10\\\/10\\\/magazine\\\/10KERRY.html?ex=1255147200&amp;en=8dcbffeaca117a9a&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10072,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/politics\\\/war_room\\\/archive.html?blog=\\\/politics\\\/war_room\\\/2004\\\/10\\\/11\\\/nuisance\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/politics\\\/war_room\\\/archive.html?blog=\\\/politics\\\/war_room\\\/2004\\\/10\\\/11\\\/nuisance\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way that this comment won&#8217;t end up getting spun to ridiculous extremes, but as far as I&#8217;m concerned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/10\/magazine\/10KERRY.html?ex=1255147200&amp;en=8dcbffeaca117a9a&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\" title=\"Kerry's Undeclared War\">this may be one of the most reasonable statements I&#8217;ve heard<\/a> from Kerry yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. &#8220;We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they&#8217;re a nuisance,&#8221; Kerry said. &#8220;As a former law-enforcement person, I know we&#8217;re never going to end prostitution. We&#8217;re never going to end illegal gambling. But we&#8217;re going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn&#8217;t on the rise. It isn&#8217;t threatening people&#8217;s lives every day, and fundamentally, it&#8217;s something that you continue to fight, but it&#8217;s not threatening the fabric of your life.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/archive.html?blog=\/politics\/war_room\/2004\/10\/11\/nuisance\/index.html\" title=\"The terrorist 'nuisance': Global Test, Part II\">Salon<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they&#8217;re a nuisance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}