{"id":8383,"date":"2015-02-28T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2015-02-28T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:01:15","slug":"brooks-shields-speak-with-reason-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"Brooks, Shields speak with reason, clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>If only conservatives and liberals could speak to each other the way these two fellows speak on subjects that have driven the ideologies so far apart.<\/p>\n<p>If only &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shields and Brooks on fighting Islamic extremism, Giuliani on Obama\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlf6AIYPu_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Brooks is a conservative columnist for the New York Times; Mark Shields&#8217;s left-leaning column is circulated in newspapers all across the country.<\/p>\n<p>They took on the issue of what to call the terrorists with whom we are at war.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked Brooks&#8217;s assessment of whether the monsters are &#8220;Islamic terrorists.&#8221; His view? All religion is open to interpretation. Christians, Jews and Muslims all interpret their faiths differently. He said the terrorists don&#8217;t practice mainstream Islam, but they&#8217;re Islamic, so why not call them such?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily think it&#8217;s important that we <em>call<\/em> these terrorists Islamic. We know what they&#8217;re doing. As Shields noted, most of the Islamic State&#8217;s victims are Muslims. They&#8217;re also killing Christians and Jews. They&#8217;re evil in the extreme and we need to respond accordingly &#8212; which we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>But the discussion on PBS is worth seeing anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If only the two sides could talk to each other the way these fellows do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only conservatives and liberals could speak to each other the way these two fellows speak on subjects that have driven the ideologies so far apart. If only &#8230; David Brooks is a conservative columnist for the New York Times; Mark Shields&#8217;s left-leaning column is circulated in newspapers all across the country. They took on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brooks, Shields speak with reason, clarity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1272,2362,2364,2917,3532,3533],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-david-brooks","tag-islamic-state","tag-islamic-terrorism","tag-mark-shields","tag-pbs","tag-pbs-newshour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}