{"id":1820,"date":"2007-08-08T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2007-08-08T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:54:39","slug":"correspondent-inference-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Why Terrorism Doesn't Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/crypto-gram-0707.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<ul>Although Bin Laden has complained that Americans have completely misunderstood the reason behind the 9\/11 attacks, correspondent inference theory postulates that he's not going to convince people. Terrorism, and 9\/11 in particular, has such a high correspondence that people use the effects of the attacks to infer the terrorists' motives. In other words, since Bin Laden caused the death of a couple of thousand people in the 9\/11 attacks, people assume that must have been his actual goal, and he's just giving lip service to what he *claims* are his goals. Even Bin Laden's actual objectives are ignored as people focus on the deaths, the destruction and the economic impact.<\/p>\n<p>Perversely, Bush's misinterpretation of terrorists' motives actually helps prevent them from achieving their goals.<\/ul>\n<p>Read the rest. You'll be smarter for it.<\/p>\n<p>Update: since the comments have turned to Rudy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/0732,barrett,77463,6.html\">Rudy's Five Big Lies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier writes: Although Bin Laden has complained that Americans have completely misunderstood the reason behind the 9\/11 attacks, correspondent inference theory postulates that he's not going to convince people. Terrorism, and 9\/11 in particular, has such a high correspondence that people use the effects of the attacks to infer the terrorists' motives. In other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}