{"id":1385,"date":"2006-02-15T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T06:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2006-02-15T00:06:54","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T06:06:54","slug":"a-tale-of-two-duh-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Duh! Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please be so kind as to file them both under the “well, I should freakin’ hope so” category.<\/p>\n

Poll: Americans fear Iran will develop, use nukes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Americans are deeply worried about the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons and use them against the USA, a USA TODAY\/CNN\/Gallup Poll finds, but they also fear that the Bush administration will be “too quick” to order military action against Iran.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

There is little doubt among Americans about Iran’s intentions. Eight of 10 predict Iran would provide a nuclear weapon to terrorists who would use it against the USA or Israel, and almost as many say the Iranian government itself would use nuclear weapons against Israel. Six of 10 say the Iranian government would deploy nuclear weapons against the USA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll admit, I’m editing quite selectively, but the story really did try to hide the meat of the poll behind the numbers based upon a so-far successful undermining of the Bush administration and piss-poor reporting of our successes in Iraq.<\/p>\n

US and Israel ‘trying to destabilise Hamas’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hamas has accused the US and Israel of refusing to accept the result of a democratic election, after a report that the two countries are discussing means to destabilise and bring down a Hamas-led Palestinian administration.<\/p>\n

The New York Times, citing diplomatic sources in Jerusalem, said Washington and Israel intend to block funding for the Palestinian Authority in an attempt to ensure that Hamas cabinet ministers fail and new elections are called.<\/p>\n

After Hamas’s election victory, the US and EU warned the Islamist group that unless it renounced violence and recognised Israel’s right to exist they would cut funding for the Palestinian Authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s see … a terrorist organization is rightfully elected the run the Palestinian state-or-whatever. The two governments that have previously shouldered a lion’s share of the funding for the state-or-state-of-anarchy balk. Is this undermining or just a shade of common-sense diplomacy? I’m voting for the latter, and I would really like to see a little hardball played here — the Palestinians made a choice and Hamas must find a way to function as a true government or fail upon their promises. After all, they have a rather sizable role to play in the violent anarchy over which they now supposedly govern. That Hamas would decry a withholding of funding from those they’ve deemed enemies is a truly special brand of weak victimization for a state-or-state-of-bloodletting that has already banked for years upon its claims of victimhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please be so kind as to file them both under the “well, I should freakin’ hope so” category. Poll: Americans fear Iran will develop, use nukes Americans are deeply worried about the possibility that Iran will develop nuclear weapons and use them against the USA, a USA TODAY\/CNN\/Gallup Poll finds, but they also fear that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia","category-middle-east","category-politics","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}