{"id":831,"date":"2008-08-27T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-08-27T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:13:29","slug":"a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-security-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Clear and Present Danger to the Security of the West&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/08\/smears-and-fear.html\">listing the tremendous strategic blunders of the Bush administration<\/a>&#8216;s neoconservative approach to national security and foreign policy, Andrew Sullivan concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Insofar as neoconservatives do not understand this, and cannot understand this, they are a clear and present danger to the security of the West. Their unwillingness to understand how the US might be perceived in the world, how a hegemon needs to exhibit more humility and dexterity to maintain its power, makes them &#8211; and McCain &#8211; extremely dangerous stewards of American foreign policy in an era of global terror. They are diplomatically and strategically autistic.<\/p>\n<p>McCain&#8217;s response to the calamities of the past eight years has been to compound them all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After listing the tremendous strategic blunders of the Bush administration&#8216;s neoconservative approach to national security and foreign policy, Andrew Sullivan concludes: Insofar as neoconservatives do not understand this, and cannot understand this, they are a clear and present danger to the security of the West. Their unwillingness to understand how the US might be perceived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,3,45,367,4,9],"tags":[58,652],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-mccain","category-national-security","category-politics","category-the-war-on-terrorism","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-neoconservatives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-dp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}