{"id":924,"date":"2018-12-18T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=924"},"modified":"2018-12-18T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T23:19:09","slug":"george-w-bushs-2nd-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/george-w-bushs-2nd-state-of-the-union-address\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush&#8217;s 2nd State of the Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 9\/11 Commission report does its best to specify the threat, in this speech President Bush goes the complete opposite direction. The plan to stop terrorism starts off intuitive enough with solid steps: \u201cWe will shut down terrorist camps, disrupt terrorist plans and bring terrorists to justice.\u201d Similarly to the Commission report, the strategy seems clear but the enemy is still undefined. President Bush specifically calls out North Korea, Iran, and Iraq. These three nations had almost nothing to do with one another. Bush seemingly wanted to end all terror in the world, a noble undertaking indeed, but not a practical one. The \u201cenemy\u201d in this speech is vague and unclear. This further illustrates the mistakes made in Iraq. Ignoring the country\u2019s culture and history and fighting there for the wrong reasons. Bush says, \u201cThe price of indifference would be catastrophic.\u201d The Iraq War in many ways was reminiscent of Vietnam in the ignorance of the country\u2019s history and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHxw8UFNCdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9\/11 Commission report does its best to specify the threat, in this speech President Bush goes the complete opposite direction. The plan to stop terrorism starts off intuitive enough&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/george-w-bushs-2nd-state-of-the-union-address\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}