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Vodkapundit writes pretty well about the war on terror, and how ideologies fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vodkapundit writes pretty well about the war on terror, and how ideologies fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-5e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudans-osama","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":0},"title":"Sudan’s Osama","author":"Gil","date":"August 9, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Lee Smith, besides being the all-time MLB saves leader and a novelist who writes about southern women, also discusses the Arab world on Slate. 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