{"id":4683,"date":"2008-09-23T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:49:45","slug":"more-evidence-of-neocon-influence-on-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/more-evidence-of-neocon-influence-on-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence of Neocon Influence on McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surrogates, <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/1042.html\">Max Boot<\/a> and Richard Williamson, told a gathering of the hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in Virginia last weekend that the Republican candidate, if elected, would not become actively engaged in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and discourage Israeli-Syrian peace efforts, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/news\/article\/2008092220080922bootdanzig.html\">an important article by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s excellent Ron Kampeas<\/a>. Consistent with my last post, Abrams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 influence on both McCain positions is apparent.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Kampeas, Williamson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endorsement of those positions \u00e2\u20ac\u0153signified how closely the McCain campaign has allied itself with neo-conservatives.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Frankly, the position of those foreign-policy realists who have endorsed McCain and who, according to the mainstream media, are supposed to be advising him \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking of James Baker or Richard Armitage as examples \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is becoming increasingly untenable in this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surrogates, Max Boot and Richard Williamson, told a gathering of the hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in Virginia last weekend that the Republican candidate, if elected, would not become actively engaged in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and discourage Israeli-Syrian peace efforts, according to an important article by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/4683","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}