{"id":578,"date":"2011-09-11T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2011-09-11T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:06:19","slug":"9-11-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/9-11-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"9-11 Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/9-11-icon.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-579\" title=\"9-11-icon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/9-11-icon-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The attacks on America 10 years ago today are being marked by many memorial events today. US President Obama is visiting all 4 sites and here in the UK there are many ceremonies and special religous services.<\/p>\n<p>I was in Italy at the time of the attacks, on honeymoon with Jeanette. As often is the case when on holiday, daily news wasn&#8217;t part of the routine but on that particular day we&#8217;d turned on the television in our hotel room and watched in disbelief and then horror at the unfolding events.<\/p>\n<p>The changes in American politics since has been dramatic and (to me) unfortunate &#8211; Guatanamo Bay, State approved torture, rendition. A <a title=\"9-11 Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/09\/08\/americans_favour_wiretapping\/\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> into attitudes ten years after the 9\/11 attacks has found over half\u00a0 thought that torture of suspected terrorists  was OK, and a similar number favoured \u201charsh interrogation techniques.\u201d It seems the USA has become desensitised to violence and I wonder if there is a way back to being the benign world policeman that has helped keep the globe largely at peace since World War II. On a more hopeful note,\u00a0 the survey also found that 46 per cent of people felt torture wasn\u2019t justified. I wonder what a similar survey of UK citizens would reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attacks on America 10 years ago today are being marked by many memorial events today. US President Obama is visiting all 4 sites and here in the UK there are many ceremonies and special religous services. I was in Italy at the time of the attacks, on honeymoon with Jeanette. As often is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/9-11-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;9-11 Anniversary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[145,144],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-145","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}