{"id":178,"date":"2008-12-29T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/intentchopra\/2008\/12\/if-terrorism-is-a-cancer-treat.html"},"modified":"2008-12-29T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:01:18","slug":"if-terrorism-is-a-cancer-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/intentchopra\/2008\/12\/if-terrorism-is-a-cancer-treat.html","title":{"rendered":"If Terrorism Is a Cancer, Treat It Like One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of President-elect Obama&#8217;s call for unity, the present divide between opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq needs to be healed. On one side, as represented by President Bush in his exit interviews, the war is seen, post-surge, as a key success in the war on terror. On the other side, as voiced by peace advocates, the war has been a dismal, shameful failure that did nothing to lessen the threat of terror around the world.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2008\/12\/29\/chopra122908.DTL&amp;hw=deepak+chopra&amp;sn=001&amp;sc=1000\">Continue reading the rest of this article in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/beta.intent.com\/deepakchopra\/profile\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deepak Chopra on Intent.com\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.intent.com\/sites\/134\/badges\/dc.gif\" style='border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px' \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of President-elect Obama&#8217;s call for unity, the present divide between opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq needs to be healed. On one side, as represented by President Bush in his exit interviews, the war is seen, post-surge, as a key success in the war on terror. 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