{"id":1689,"date":"2005-01-22T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-22T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T14:42:23","slug":"dimitri-simes-an-extremist-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/22\/dimitri-simes-an-extremist-in-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitri Simes: &#8220;An Extremist in the White House&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/la-na-neocons22jan22,1,2483814.story?coll=la-news-politics-national\">Dimitri Simes<\/a>, president of the Nixon Center, a conservative think tank, on Bush&#8217;s inaugural speech:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House. I hope and pray that he didn&#8217;t mean it \u2026 [and] that it was merely an inspirational speech, not practical guidance for the conduct of foreign policy.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>An inspiration to warmongers and funeral home operators &#8212; with the rest of us just hoping and praying it isn&#8217;t true. Has it really come to this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, a conservative think tank, on Bush&#8217;s inaugural speech: &#8220;If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House. I hope and pray that he didn&#8217;t mean it \u2026 [and] that it was merely an inspirational speech, not practical guidance for the conduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/1689","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}