{"id":380,"date":"2005-03-09T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2005\/03\/the-danger-of-neo-con-self-delusion.html"},"modified":"2005-03-09T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:57:00","slug":"danger-of-neo-con-self-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2005\/03\/danger-of-neo-con-self-delusion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Neo-Con Self Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of back-slapping and high-fiving going on right now in the Neo-Con Command Bunker.  After all, it appears that democracy is taking hold in the Middle East just as G.W. is now rewriting history to say he said it would.  Elections happened (sort of) in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine.  Syria is being &#8220;driven&#8221; from Lebanon.  It all looks pretty promising.  But there is great care which must be taken when you are hearing what you want to hear.  That is, if you really want that new plasma TV, the salesman has no trouble providing the rationale to get you to whip out the Visa.  Is democracy really taking hold, or are we getting sold what we so desperately want to buy?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.bignewsnetwork.com\/redir.php?jid=7eaba66d887abd8e&amp;cat=45d771c7290844e9\">Scottish perspective<\/a> is in order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of back-slapping and high-fiving going on right now in the Neo-Con Command Bunker. After all, it appears<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2005\/03\/danger-of-neo-con-self-delusion.html\" title=\"Read The Danger of Neo-Con Self Delusion\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}