{"id":28059,"date":"2011-09-05T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_john_howard-a_decade_on_the_resolve_to_fight_terrorism_must_remain_the\/"},"modified":"2011-09-05T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T01:33:00","slug":"smh_john_howard-a_decade_on_the_resolve_to_fight_terrorism_must_remain_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28059","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) John Howard&#8211;A decade on, the resolve to fight terrorism must remain the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, 10 years on, the mood is different. Like all military commitments that last a long time, the war in Afghanistan has less public support.<\/p>\n<p>But the merits have not altered: the safe haven must still be denied. There is, in fact, the added dimension of a nuclear-armed Pakistan, now more fragmented and unstable than in 2001. If the United States and her allies leave Afghanistan prematurely, the terrorist cause in neighbouring Pakistan will receive a huge boost.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the perspective has changed. Americans and others have lost their fear of further terrorist attacks&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/a-decade-on-the-resolve-to-fight-terrorism-must-remain-the-same-20110904-1js8l.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, 10 years on, the mood is different. Like all military commitments that last a long time, the war in Afghanistan has less public support. But the merits have not altered: the safe haven must still be denied. There is,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28059\">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":[39,40,143,133,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-history","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28059","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=28059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}