{"id":5422,"date":"2008-06-17T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/richard-danzig-winnie-the-pooh.html"},"modified":"2008-06-17T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T20:10:13","slug":"richard-danzig-winnie-the-pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/richard-danzig-winnie-the-pooh.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Danzig: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy<\/a> is a key foreign policy adviser for Obama?<\/p>\n

Mr Danzig spelled out the need for the US to change its foreign policy towards the Arab world by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head … sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”
\n[…]
\nHe said one terrorist told him: “We have been raised on a theory of superheroes. We all want to be like Luke Skywalker … when someone comes along, like Asahara, the head of the cult, and presents himself as a messiah … that is for us extraordinarily evocative.”
\nHe added: “The parallels with al-Qaeda are obvious.”
\nHe went on to say: “One of the best books I’ve read on terrorism in recent years was not about terrorism at all, It’s Bill Buford’s book Among The Thugs, which is a description of soccer violence in Britain.
\n“He describes with relentless honesty how he finds sickening things attractive. He says violence lets the adrenalin flow; it’s like sex, you live in the moment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this is the level of knowledge that Obama’s advisers have about our enemy, then we are in serious terrible if he is elected. Maybe he should put down the book on soccer and Winnie the Pooh and pick up The Looming Tower<\/a>. He might actually learn something about those who are bent on our destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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