{"id":426,"date":"2002-03-13T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2002-03-13T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/13\/lets-nuke-mecca\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:19:57","slug":"lets-nuke-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/13\/lets-nuke-mecca\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s nuke Mecca!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16434,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nationalreview.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313134947\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nationalreview.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:01:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:11:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:11:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nationalreview.com\\\/thecorner\\\/2002_03_03_corner-archive.shtml#10503547&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080515075922\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nationalreview.com\\\/thecorner\\\/2002_03_03_corner-archive.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:01:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:11:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:11:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16436,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.prospect.org\\\/webfeatures\\\/2002\\\/03\\\/lott-j-03-11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070412223654\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.prospect.org:80\\\/webfeatures\\\/2002\\\/03\\\/lott-j-03-11.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:01:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:11:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 04:11:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Just in case things in the world weren&#8217;t getting freaky enough, the editor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/\" title=\"A little too conservative for my tastes.\">National Review<\/a> is pondering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/2002_03_03_corner-archive.shtml#10503547\" title=\"Because utterly destroying the heart of their religion is _sure_ to promote peace and an end to conflict, right?\">nuking Mecca<\/a>. There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/webfeatures\/2002\/03\/lott-j-03-11.html\" title=\"At least this guy seems to have two brain cells to rub together.\">a column at The American Prospect<\/a> looking at this from a slightly saner perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case things in the world weren&#8217;t getting freaky enough, the editor of the National Review is pondering nuking Mecca. There is a column at The American Prospect looking at this from a slightly saner perspective.<\/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":[39],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}