{"id":1832,"date":"2003-12-16T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2003-12-16T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T18:41:00","slug":"commemorating-wmds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/12\/16\/14\/41\/commemorating-wmds\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating WMDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum<\/a>. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first atomic bomb<\/a> that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, his point is that for USians to understand how this strikes many people, imagine if sometime around 2050 Al Qaida was to pay for a monument to be erected in Saudia Arabia to commemorate the airplanes that struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fintan emailed me a nice parallel concerning the display of the Enola Gay in a US national museum. Apparently this airplane has no distinguishing features aside from the fact that it conveyed the first...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t