{"id":1724,"date":"2007-12-15T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T02:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2007-12-15T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T03:04:23","slug":"richard-perle-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Richard Perle Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/16\/books\/review\/traub.html?ref=review\">James Traub writes in the NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Neoconservative foreign policy &mdash; which is to say bellicose nationalism crossed with an idealistic faith in America&rsquo;s capacity to transform the world for the better &mdash; is dead. Iraq was its Frankenstein&rsquo;s monster, and the beast has turned on its creator. Our central task today is to devise a new way of thinking about the post-9\/11 world. In the meantime, we can learn something of how we reached this pass by reflecting on the doctors who carried out the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its thunderous subtitle &mdash; &ldquo;The Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America&rdquo; &mdash; Alan Weisman&rsquo;s &ldquo;Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle&rdquo; has little to say about the way forward. A former producer at &ldquo;60 Minutes,&rdquo; Weisman has assembled a book-length version of the kind of diligent, unimaginative profile that constitutes the show&rsquo;s stock in trade. He has, however, effectively humanized a figure at the heart of the neoconservative enterprise who is usually rendered in cartoon terms, showing how Perle&rsquo;s personal gifts contributed to his impressive success.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Traub writes in the NYT: Neoconservative foreign policy &mdash; which is to say bellicose nationalism crossed with an idealistic faith in America&rsquo;s capacity to transform the world for the better &mdash; is dead. Iraq was its Frankenstein&rsquo;s monster, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}