{"id":1783,"date":"2004-02-09T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/09\/1783.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:21","slug":"down-with-belgium-frances-pilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/02\/09\/down-with-belgium-frances-pilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Down with Belgium, France&#8217;s Pilot Fish!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Lind, former Neocon, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20040223&amp;s=lind\">a fascinating article<\/a> in the upcoming Feb. 23rd issue of <I>The Nation<\/I> on the Neoconservative movement and its leaders. It&#8217;s quite long, and I don&#8217;t really know how to deal with his personal biases, but it appears to do a great job of explaining who are, and who aren&#8217;t, Neocons, and what Neocons believe, and don&#8217;t believe. I was particularly struck by his description of the influence of Kipling (and Churchill), and the importance of enemies to Neoconservatism.\n<p>Gentle Readers will be aware that I&#8217;ve put a good deal of thought into Conservatism, and what it is, isn&#8217;t, and might be (tho&#8216; I&#8217;ve given up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=948\">Tenets<\/a>, I suppose); I&#8217;m often annoyed by self-described Conservatives who do not seem Conservative to me at all. I&#8217;ve never really known much about the Neocon philosophy; it seems, on the whole, to be more Progressive in instinct than Conservative, focusing rather on the possible gains than losses. Not that the Neocons are Progressives, just that they do not seem to share the essential mindset of Conservatives, even if they share many of the goals.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lind, former Neocon, has a fascinating article in the upcoming Feb. 23rd issue of The Nation on the Neoconservative movement and its leaders. It\u2019s quite long, and I don\u2019t really know how to deal with his personal biases, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16915,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/16915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}