{"id":209,"date":"2003-09-28T19:21:27","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=209"},"modified":"2003-09-28T19:21:27","modified_gmt":"2003-09-28T09:21:27","slug":"the-three-conjectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/28\/the-three-conjectures","title":{"rendered":"The Three Conjectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belmontclub.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_belmontclub_archive.html#106401071003484059\">Quoth<\/a> the Belmont Club:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The so-called strengths of Islamic terrorism: fanatical intent; lack of a centralized leadership; absence of a final authority and cellular structure guarantee uncontrollable escalation once the nuclear threshold is crossed. Therefore the &#8216;rational&#8217; American response to the initiation of terrorist WMD attack would be all out retaliation from the outset.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoth the Belmont Club: The so-called strengths of Islamic terrorism: fanatical intent; lack of a centralized leadership; absence of a final authority and cellular structure guarantee uncontrollable escalation once the nuclear threshold is crossed. Therefore the &#8216;rational&#8217; American response to the initiation of terrorist WMD attack would be all out retaliation from the outset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}