{"id":2334,"date":"2008-08-14T13:32:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/neocon_dreams\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T17:32:34","slug":"neocon_dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/08\/neocon_dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"NeoCon Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s clear the neocons view the Russian\/Georgian conflict as <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NmEyZThlMjUxY2JiMmM1ODZlYWU0ZWUxMDA1NzVhZTE=\">an opportunity to rekindle the Cold War<\/a>.  Meanwhile, it&#8217;s been comical listening to the right-wing noise machine attempting to blame Senator Obama for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2001\/06\/20010618.html\">I got a &#8220;sense of his [Putin&#8217;s] soul<\/a>&#8221;  comment still haunts this crowd; it makes it much more difficult to vilify Putin when their &#8220;serious&#8221; commander-in-cheif has been yucking it up with him.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/08\/13\/mccain-21-century\/\">Senator McCain said<\/a>: &#8220;In the 21st century, nations don&#8217;t invade other nations.&#8221;  Today comedian Limbaugh, et al., are framing (and condeming) the conflict as Russia&#8217;s quest to control oil flows.  The irony is overwhelming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/08\/neocon_dreams\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to NeoCon Dreams\"><p>It&#8217;s clear the neocons view the Russian\/Georgian conflict as an opportunity to rekindle the Cold War. Meanwhile, it&#8217;s been comical listening to the right-wing noise machine attempting to blame Senator Obama for the situation. President Bush&#8217;s I got a &#8220;sense of his [Putin&#8217;s] soul&#8221; comment still haunts this crowd; it makes it much more difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}