{"id":1991,"date":"2026-08-06T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T16:02:06","slug":"americas-political-divide-is-a-strategic-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"America&#039;s Political Divide Is a Strategic Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/723780_1_.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"America&#039;s Political Divide Is a Strategic Vulnerability\" title=\"America&#039;s Political Divide Is a Strategic Vulnerability\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>As a U.S. Army veteran who faced radical Islamic terrorists in combat, I have looked into the eyes of men taught from childhood &#8211; in madrassas and through propaganda &#8211; to hate Americans with a purity of purpose that left little room for doubt. Their hatred was not something I merely observed. It was something their eyes burned into mine. That hatred was foreign, cultivated, and directed outward. What I struggle to comprehend is the visceral contempt some Americans now direct at their fellow citizens. It is a hatred that feels familiar in intensity yet alien in origin, because it comes from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a U.S. Army veteran who faced radical Islamic terrorists in combat, I have looked into the eyes of men taught from childhood &#8211; in madrassas and through propaganda &#8211; to hate Americans with a purity of purpose that left little room for doubt. Their hatred was not something I merely observed. It was something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/723780_1_.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3719,3011,2733,3720,3721],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-america039s","tag-divide","tag-political","tag-strategic","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}