{"id":152,"date":"2006-10-13T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-02-27T22:12:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T03:12:19","slug":"clintons-right-arabists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Clinton’s Right Arabists"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a previous post<\/a>, I noted that Bill Clinton’s references to “President Bush’s neo-cons” conveniently overlooked “neo-con” influence in the Democratic party and in his own administration.\u00c2\u00a0 Walter Slocombe at the Pentagon.\u00c2\u00a0 James Woolsey<\/a> at CIA.<\/p>\n

But maybe Clinton was trying to signal a change.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps the Democratic party wants to make a bid to become the party of the Right Arabist foreign policy establishment.<\/p>\n

Add this to the evidence pile: Hillary Clinton did a little singing from the same songbook over at the New York<\/em> Daily News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“If we could get some adult supervision right now in the administration with respect to their war strategy, this could be handled,” she said…<\/span><\/p>\n

“I believe that if President Bush woke up tomorrow and said that he would substitute Jim Baker<\/strong> or Colin Powell<\/strong> or Brent Scowcroft<\/strong> or somebody who actually knows how to do things in the real world for Rumsfeld, I think the entire world would say ‘Okay, you’ve got another chance, we want to listen to you again.'”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00c2\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n

Going for the George H.W. Bush vote in 2008?<\/p>\n

Good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a previous post, I noted that Bill Clinton’s references to “President Bush’s neo-cons” conveniently overlooked “neo-con” influence in the Democratic party and in his own administration.\u00c2\u00a0 Walter Slocombe at the Pentagon.\u00c2\u00a0 James Woolsey at CIA. But maybe Clinton was trying to signal a change.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps the Democratic party wants to make a bid to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}