{"id":3463,"date":"2005-07-15T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/15\/were-winning\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T20:49:29","slug":"were-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/were-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis Pew Poll is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2005-07-14-suicide-attack-support_x.htm\">good news:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 Support for suicide bombings and other acts of violence in defense of Islam has dropped since 2002 by 34 percentage points in Lebanon, 12 points in Indonesia and 8 points in Pakistan. The exception to the trend is Jordan, where support increased by 14 points, to 57%.<\/p>\n<p>There are higher levels of support for suicide bombings that target Americans and their allies in Iraq, though they also have dropped. About half of Muslims in Lebanon, Jordan and Morocco said those attacks were justified.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Confidence in bin Laden has fallen by double-digit margins in Indonesia, Morocco and Lebanon since 2003. In Lebanon, only 2% now express confidence in him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It puts the lie to the claim that the liberation of Iraq has made more terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2005_07_10-2005_07_16.shtml#1121434251\">Orin Kerr<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Pew Poll is good news: \u2022 Support for suicide bombings and other acts of violence in defense of Islam has dropped since 2002 by 34 percentage points in Lebanon, 12 points in Indonesia and 8 points in Pakistan. The exception to the trend is Jordan, where support increased by 14 points, to 57%. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/were-winning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;re winning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-TR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}