{"id":161,"date":"2006-10-24T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-02-27T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T03:10:21","slug":"baker-group-the-neocon-gloves-come-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Baker Group: The Neocon Gloves Come Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordinarily try to offer an interpretive &#8220;reading&#8221; of articles to which I link.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, however, the following rant by AEI&#8217;s Michael Rubin&#8211;a full-throated critique of James Baker and his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/?p=153\">Iraq Study Group<\/a>&#8211;will have to speak (or scream) for itself!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link: &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publications\/filter.all,pubID.25037\/pub_detail.asp\">Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"BodyText\">While bipartisan, the groups are anything but representative of the policy debate. I personally withdrew from an expert working group after concluding that I was meant to contribute token diversity rather than my substantive views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"BodyText\">Many appointees appeared to be selected less for expertise than for their hostility to President Bush&#8217;s war on terrorism and emphasis on democracy&#8230;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"BodyText\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordinarily try to offer an interpretive &#8220;reading&#8221; of articles to which I link.\u00c2\u00a0 For now, however, the following rant by AEI&#8217;s Michael Rubin&#8211;a full-throated critique of James Baker and his Iraq Study Group&#8211;will have to speak (or scream) for itself! Here is the link: &#8220;Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards&#8221; A taste: While bipartisan, the groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profcutler.com\/wordpress_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}