{"id":3357,"date":"2007-03-16T00:27:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T07:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/16\/unrepentant\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T06:34:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T13:34:13","slug":"unrepentant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/16\/unrepentant\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrepentant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> is Slate <\/em>editor Jacob Weisberg, writing in the Financial Times<\/em> about the latest American Enterprise Institute shindig, where neocon<\/a> bigwig Bernard Lewis<\/a> received an award and made a speech<\/a> defending the Crusades<\/a> as the first phase of the necessary struggle against “Islamofascism”:<\/p>\n

Were one to start counting ironies here, where would one stop? Here was a Jewish scholar criticising the Pope for apologising to Muslims for a holy war against Muslims, which was also a massacre of the Jews. Here were the theorists of the invasion of Iraq, many of them also Jewish, applauding the notion that the crusades were not so terrible and embracing a time horizon that makes it impossible to judge their war an error. And here was the clubhouse of the neo-conservatives, throwing itself a lavish party when the biggest question in American politics is how to escape the hole they have dug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In attendance: Dick Cheney<\/a>, applauding; Clarence Thomas<\/a>, the first to rise for a standing ovation; Richard Perle<\/a>, Robert Bork<\/a>, and Reason<\/em> editor Nick Gillespie<\/a>. We hear the crab bisque was “better-than-average<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, writing in the Financial Times about the latest American Enterprise Institute shindig, where neocon bigwig Bernard Lewis received an award and made a speech defending the Crusades as the first phase of the necessary struggle against “Islamofascism”: Were one to start counting ironies here, where would one stop? Here […]<\/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-3357","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\/3357","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=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}