Good news! Everything’s swell in Iraq, and getting better \u2013 so long as the U.S. stays put. How do I know? I read Cathy Young’s latest<\/a>. How does she know? She read The Weekly Standard<\/i>, The New Republic<\/i>, and Andrew Sullivan. That’s right \u2013 after canvassing the gamut of foreign policy viewpoints from A to B, Young assures us that “Iraqis have grounds to hope for a better future” and favorably compares the continued occupation of Iraq with the defeat of Nazism.<\/p>\n I was relieved when former Reason<\/i> editor-in-chief (and born-again neocon<\/a>) Virginia Postrel left the magazine, but at least she decried the tyranny of the “Lethal Center<\/a>,” the “coming together of ‘pragmatic’ liberals and ‘responsible’ conservatives” behind the interventionist state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good news! Everything’s swell in Iraq, and getting better \u2013 so long as the U.S. stays put. How do I know? I read Cathy Young’s latest. How does she know? She read The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, and Andrew Sullivan. That’s right \u2013 after canvassing the gamut of foreign policy viewpoints from A to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-2491","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\/2491","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}