{"id":5848,"date":"2011-05-04T13:32:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5848"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:32:54","slug":"the-emerging-counternarrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-emerging-counternarrative\/","title":{"rendered":"The emerging counternarrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703834804576301032595527372.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop\">John Yoo claims <\/a>that Obama ordered the killing rather than capture of OBL in order to avoid having to make hard decisions regarding his detention and interrogation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Obama&#8217;s policies now differ from their Bush counterparts mainly on the issue of interrogation. As Sunday&#8217;s operation put so vividly on display, Mr. Obama would rather kill al Qaeda leaders\u2014whether by drones or special ops teams\u2014than wade through the difficult questions raised by their detention. This may have dissuaded Mr. Obama from sending a more robust force to attempt a capture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Really?\u00a0 I am perfectly willing to grant that Bush-era interrogation policies may have yielded information on which this raid was partially built, but\u00a0I think that Yoo, whom I respect and who has been unfairly personally demonized for his good faith service to the country,\u00a0\u00a0may be entering fantasy-land here.\u00a0 It strikes me as highly unlikely that this military strategy was devised simply to avoid the possibility of interrogation, with its alleged &#8220;difficult questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Yoo claims that Obama ordered the killing rather than capture of OBL in order to avoid having to make hard decisions regarding his detention and interrogation: Mr. Obama&#8217;s policies now differ from their Bush counterparts mainly on the issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-emerging-counternarrative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5848\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}