{"id":1670,"date":"2017-12-08T02:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2017-12-08T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:20:03","slug":"fighting-terrorism-at-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"fighting terrorism, at it’s roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading Hillary Rodham Clinton’s book Hard Choices<\/em> today.\u00a0 In a chapter about terrorism, she states: “…we can see that violent extremism is bound up with nearly all of today’s complex global problems.\u00a0 It can take root in zones of crisis and poverty, flourish under repression and in the absence of the rule of law…”\u00a0 Good analysis.\u00a0 So to fight terrorism, common sense says a main front should be trying to impact, for instance, global poverty.\u00a0 A kid in a dead-end poverty loop in our cities are drawn to a: gang.\u00a0 A kid in a dead-end poverty loop in the Third World is drawn to a: terrorist cell.\u00a0 So how do we fight<\/em> this?\u00a0 We take Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” international.\u00a0 Yes, the U.S. does help internationally already.\u00a0 But frankly, we could help so<\/em> much more!\u00a0 If we tightened our belts: less food (66% of Americans are overweight); less luxury items (fewer air conditioners, fewer wide screen TVs, fewer cars with all the options, fewer unneeded new home additions…).\u00a0 Two things happen with this strategy.\u00a0 Terrorism decreases in kind.\u00a0 And one’s spirituality increases in kind.\u00a0 It’s a win\/win.\u00a0 For our position paper on terrorism, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading Hillary Rodham Clinton’s book Hard Choices today.\u00a0 In a chapter about terrorism, she states: “…we can see that violent extremism is bound up with nearly all of today’s complex global problems.\u00a0 It can take root in zones …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}