{"id":3741,"date":"2007-07-24T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/iraq-war-shatters-the-illusions-of-a-neocon\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T20:20:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T03:20:50","slug":"iraq-war-shatters-the-illusions-of-a-neocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/iraq-war-shatters-the-illusions-of-a-neocon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq War &#8216;Shatters the Illusions&#8217; of a Neocon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher, a former <em>National Review <\/em>champion of the war, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2007\/07\/once-upon-a-time-i-believed.html\">explains that the colossal failure of the Iraq War has &#8220;shattered his illusions&#8221; about government.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among his reflections:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I no longer implicitly trust governmental institutions, including the military &#8212; neither in their honesty nor their competence.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer have confidence in the ability of our military, or any military, to solve deep cultural and civilizational problems through force alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2007\/07\/once-upon-a-time-i-believed.html\">Keep reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Lew Rockwell.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher, a former National Review champion of the war, explains that the colossal failure of the Iraq War has &#8220;shattered his illusions&#8221; about government. Among his reflections: I no longer implicitly trust governmental institutions, including the military &#8212; neither in their honesty nor their competence. I no longer have confidence in the ability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-3741","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\/3741","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}