{"id":32301,"date":"2012-10-08T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32301"},"modified":"2012-10-08T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T23:38:10","slug":"lara-logan-there-is-a-major-lie-being-propagated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32301","title":{"rendered":"Lara Logan: there is a major lie being propagated\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Logan the South African journalist working for CBS who was famously sexually assaulted in Egypt last summer during their &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; spoke to  Better Government Association annual luncheon in Chicago on Tuesday. According to Tiffany Gabbay in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cbs-lara-logan-government-and-media-lying-about-strength-of-islamic-threat-2012-10\">Business Insider<\/a> Logan wasn&#8217;t pulling her journalistic punches;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She explained that the Taliban, al Qaeda and its proxies haven\u2019t gone away and are in fact re-energized and coming back in force. Logan also informed the crowd that a \u201clie\u201d is being propagated by the American government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose this subject because, one, I can\u2019t stand, that there is a major lie being propagated\u2026\u201d Logan announced. The lie is that the U.S. military has tamed the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is this narrative coming out of Washington for the last two years,\u201d Logan began. It is driven in part by \u201cTaliban apologists,\u201c who claim \u201dthey are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such nonsense!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Yeah, well, when the whole world sees that our only strategy is a rush for the exits, what&#8217;s to deter the darker forces from being the same bad actors they were before the war?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Logan went on to say that people have been duped into believing that the threat of radical Islam is merely a thing of the past, saying:<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cYou\u2019re not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your arrogance, you think you write the script.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what you get when the electorate hears what they want to hear. It&#8217;s back to the complacency of pre-9-11 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Sun Times, Logan hopes America will \u201cexact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not stand by and do nothing about it.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, Lara, I just don&#8217;t see it happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Logan the South African journalist working for CBS who was famously sexually assaulted in Egypt &hellip; <a title=\"Lara Logan: there is a major lie being propagated\u2026\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32301\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lara Logan: there is a major lie being propagated\u2026<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}