{"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":"

James Traub writes in the NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Neoconservative foreign policy — which is to say bellicose nationalism crossed with an idealistic faith in America’s capacity to transform the world for the better — is dead. Iraq was its Frankenstein’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

Despite its thunderous subtitle — “The Kingdom, the Power, and the End of Empire in America” — Alan Weisman’s “Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle” has little to say about the way forward. A former producer at “60 Minutes,” Weisman has assembled a book-length version of the kind of diligent, unimaginative profile that constitutes the show’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’s personal gifts contributed to his impressive success.<\/p>\n

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James Traub writes in the NYT: Neoconservative foreign policy — which is to say bellicose nationalism crossed with an idealistic faith in America’s capacity to transform the world for the better — is dead. Iraq was its Frankenstein’s monster, and … Continue reading →<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t