{"id":3531,"date":"2007-05-09T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T23:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/a-visible-yet-sinister-group\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T00:16:04","slug":"a-visible-yet-sinister-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/a-visible-yet-sinister-group\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Visible Yet Sinister Group&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153war on terrorism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a project of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153visible yet sinister group\u00e2\u20ac\u009d known as the neoconservatives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the theme of this brilliant and beautiful video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gxz1jbPCfTQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sullivan, who supposedly has had a turnaround on the war,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/05\/youtube_propaga.html\"><font color=\"#006a80\">calls<\/font><\/a> this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nazi-like.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nazi-like\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about it? Well, you see, the evidence is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in its concern with aesthetics.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So any \u00e2\u20ac\u0153skillful\u00e2\u20ac\u009d use of film in the service of making a political point is\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u009dNazi-like\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Somehow,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Andy babbles on,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u009dI feel the irony was lost on it creators.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The irony here is that Sullivan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s use of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Lie\"><font color=\"#006a80\">Big Lie<\/font><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d technique is itself Nazi-like. As for the film,\u00c2\u00a0Sullivan clearly refuses to pay attention to\u00c2\u00a0its trenchant critique of managed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153corporatist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d economics and military expansionism, reducing it to epithets like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chomsky-esque\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0when in fact it is much closer to what Old Right critics of militarism and big government, like\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article15478.htm\"><font color=\"#006a80\">John T. Flynn<\/font><\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0were saying in the aftermath of World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153war on terrorism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a project of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153visible yet sinister group\u00e2\u20ac\u009d known as the neoconservatives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the theme of this brilliant and beautiful video: Andrew Sullivan, who supposedly has had a turnaround on the war,\u00c2\u00a0calls this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nazi-like.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nazi-like\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about it? Well, you see, the evidence is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in its concern with [&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-3531","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\/3531","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=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}