{"id":185348,"date":"2011-07-24T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/24\/did-a-not-krugman-times-op-ed-writer-just-call-republicans-domestic-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T23:53:00","slug":"did-a-not-krugman-times-op-ed-writer-just-call-republicans-domestic-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/24\/did-a-not-krugman-times-op-ed-writer-just-call-republicans-domestic-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a Not-Krugman Times OP\/Ed Writer Just Call Republicans Domestic Terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why yes, I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/24\/opinion\/24kristof.html\">Nicholas Kristof just wrote that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it\u2019s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists.<\/p>\n<p>We tend to think of national security narrowly as the risk of a military or terrorist attack. But national security is about protecting our people and our national strength \u2014 and the blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America\u2019s national security this summer doesn\u2019t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans start from a legitimate concern about rising long-term debt. Politicians are usually focused only on short-term issues, so it would be commendable to see the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party seriously focused on containing long-term debt. But on this issue, many House Republicans aren\u2019t serious, they\u2019re just obsessive in a destructive way. The upshot is that in their effort to protect the American economy from debt, some of them are willing to drag it over the cliff of default. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s remember not only the national security risks posed by Iran and Al Qaeda. Let\u2019s also focus on the risks, however unintentional, from domestic zealots. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW, I think that he&#8217;s wrong:  This is intentional.<\/p>\n<p>They want to win in 2012, and they are attempting to destroy the nation to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why yes, I think that Nicholas Kristof just wrote that: IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage. Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it\u2019s not coming from abroad, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}