{"id":12391,"date":"2011-10-19T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2011-10-19T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:22:40","slug":"what-neoconservatives-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/what-neoconservatives-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What Neoconservatives Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/Abrams_Elliott\">Elliot Abrams<\/a>\u2019 wife (and as Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.salon.com\/2011\/10\/19\/those_hypocritical_iranians\/singleton\/\">points out<\/a>, central figure in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/15481\/\">the neocon family<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/badrachel.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/gilad.html?spref=tw\">Rachel Abrams on the release of Gilad Shalit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then round up [Shalit\u2019s] captors, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women\u2014those who aren\u2019t strapping bombs to their own devils\u2019 spawn and sending them out to meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others\u2014and their offspring\u2014those who haven\u2019t already been pimped out by their mothers to the murder god\u2014as shields, hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they\u2019re traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shalit was a bit more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/1597595\/Gilad-Shalit-hopes-swap-deal--leads-to-peace-\">forgiving<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hope this deal helps achieve peace between both sides, Israel and the Palestinians. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be very happy if the [Palestinian prisoners] were all released so that they can go back to their families and their lands. I would be very happy if this happened.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot Abrams\u2019 wife (and as Glenn Greenwald points out, central figure in the neocon family) Rachel Abrams on the release of Gilad Shalit: &#8220;Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you. &#8220;Then round up [Shalit\u2019s] captors, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47,3,10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-neocons","category-news","category-war-party"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12399,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions\/12399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}