{"id":114608,"date":"2017-05-24T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114608"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:27:17","slug":"the-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114608","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Siege&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/broadways-boffo-box-office\/#comment-1882998\">Comment<\/a>: &#8220;The Siege was a good movie, and was prescient in terms of future Islamophobia concerns, but not in terms of how the U.S. and other Western societies would react to terrorism. IIRC, the triggering terrorism in The Siege caused fewer deaths than 9\/11, but after 9\/11 nothing like The Siege happened. 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