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    "title": "September 11: Beyond Mourning",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "World War IV",
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    "created": "2010-09-11 18:46:25 UTC",
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        "2010-09-11 18:46:25 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>For all its horror, 9/11 was not a declaration of war by radical Islam.</p>\n<p>Rather, it was a dramatic escalation of a war that had begun decades earlier -- in Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Lebanon, in the first World Trade Center bombing and in the attack on USS Cole.</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>For sure, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair gets it. The West, he says, is under attack by an ideology -- and \"its roots are deep, its tentacles are long and its narrative about Islam stretches far further than we think.\"</p>\n<p>And, he warns, \"a lot of people don't understand that this is a generational-long struggle. And I think one of the . . . debates we've got to have in the West is -- are we prepared for that?\"</p>\n<p>That truly is the question.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/beyond_mourning_qPqXGbgFcDbaohqpCCSDEK\">September 11: Beyond Mourning--Editorial - NYPOST.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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