{"id":2923,"date":"2007-02-22T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2007-02-22T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T10:18:00","slug":"america-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2923","title":{"rendered":"America doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting interview with an Islamic expert, Saad Al-Faqih on Al-Qaeda <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/publications_details.php?volume_id=397&#038;&#038;issue_id=2907\">here <\/a>(HT <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2004\/05\/al_qaedas_grand.html\">John Robb<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not persuaded that America is as week as Faqih believes. I agree that it is about to suffer a severe setback, but I think that what will happen is that the underlying strength and resilience of US culture will then emerge out of the crucible. In contrast to Faqih I think the long term comparison of cultural strength favours the US. It is Islam that faces a true existential crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting interview with an Islamic expert, Saad Al-Faqih on Al-Qaeda here (HT John Robb). I&#8217;m not persuaded that America is as week as Faqih believes. I agree that it is about to suffer a severe setback, but I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2923\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-L9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}