{"id":12943,"date":"2009-05-22T18:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_faces_pitfalls_with_surgical_tack_on_detainees\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:14:59","slug":"obama_faces_pitfalls_with_surgical_tack_on_detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12943","title":{"rendered":"Obama Faces Pitfalls With \u201d\u02dcSurgical\u2019 Tack on Detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Obama defends his national security strategy, he faces a daunting challenge. He must convince the country that it is in safe hands despite warnings to the contrary from the right, and at the same time persuade the skeptical left that it is enough to amend his predecessor\u2019s approach rather than abandon it.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably on the defensive over policy for the first time since taking office, Mr. Obama is gambling that his oratorical powers can reassure the public that bringing terrorism suspects to prisons on American soil will not put the public in danger.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he must explain and win support for a nuanced set of positions that fall somewhere between George W. Bush and the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/22\/us\/22assess.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Obama defends his national security strategy, he faces a daunting challenge. He must convince the country that it is in safe hands despite warnings to the contrary from the right, and at the same time persuade the skeptical<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12943\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,143,144,114,106,616,151,667,666,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-military-armed-forces","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-president-george-bush","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}