{"id":3750,"date":"2006-04-23T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:56:39","slug":"instincts-about-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3750","title":{"rendered":"Instincts about 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting long interview with George Bush in the Telegraph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=USTWXPX1BURWZQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/04\/22\/wcon22.xml\">here<\/a>. There was one in the paper today with Blair, following on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do a longish review of the David Ray Griffin books when I&#8217;ve finished the second &#8211; probably at the end of this week &#8211; but I just wanted to say that having pretty much exhausted my &#8216;head&#8217; patience &#8211; ie explored all the things I&#8217;m interested in sufficiently &#8211; I find I can&#8217;t fully swallow all the &#8220;9\/11 truth&#8221; conspiracy stories. I think there are legitimate questions to raise, which need answering, but I find both a) the official story unbelievable, and b) the conspiracy story largely unbelievable. I just can&#8217;t believe that publicly elected officials (ie Bush) could be that wicked. So the answer must be &#8216;mu&#8217; (unask the question).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also convinced of the civilisational clash between the West and the Islamists, and that that is one of the fundamental truths revealed by 9\/11. So there is a large part of the official narrative of recent years that I buy into, even if it does play to the interests of the &#8216;new Pearl Harbour&#8217; crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting long interview with George Bush in the Telegraph here. There was one in the paper today with Blair, following on. I&#8217;ll do a longish review of the David Ray Griffin books when I&#8217;ve finished the second &#8211; probably at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3750\">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":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Yu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}