{"id":5782,"date":"2009-06-16T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2009-06-16T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:35:13","slug":"i-love-the-smell-of-vindication-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/i-love-the-smell-of-vindication-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love the Smell of Vindication in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord knows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/youll-never-break-this-heart-of-stone\/\">I tried to warn you<\/a>: Andrew Sullivan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/01\/sanctions-are-preferable-to-war\/\">no peacenik<\/a>. In the last 24 hours of his hysterical Iran!revolution!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! typeathon, Sullivan has relapsed and rediscovered all his old drinking buddies from the Saddam!liberation!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! days: <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/a-day-of-destiny.html\">Michael Ledeen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/instapundit-is-now-green.html\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/iran-blogging.html\">Michael Totten<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/the-masked-men-ctd.html\">Christopher Hitchens<\/a>&#8230; What, no <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/04\/whence_that_ant.html\">Laurie Mylroie<\/a> yet?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, sure, he also <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/quote-for-the-day-iii-4.html\">links<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/buchanan\/2009\/06\/15\/outlasting-the-ayatollahs\/\">Pat Buchanan piece<\/a> advocating nonintervention, saying he agrees &#8220;for now,&#8221; but that&#8217;s typical of Sullivan&#8217;s fluttering, erratic style of punditry, which never pauses long enough to consider its own contradictions. But read his blog for a few hours, and you&#8217;ll get the general thrust, whether Sullivan is aware of it or not in his <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/yes-the-dish-is-now-green.html\">green delirium<\/a>: something must be done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord knows, I tried to warn you: Andrew Sullivan is no peacenik. In the last 24 hours of his hysterical Iran!revolution!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! typeathon, Sullivan has relapsed and rediscovered all his old drinking buddies from the Saddam!liberation!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! days: Michael Ledeen, Glenn Reynolds, Michael Totten, Christopher Hitchens&#8230; What, no Laurie Mylroie yet? Sure, sure, he also links to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[68,70,17,10],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-sullivan","category-christopher-hitchens","category-iran","category-war-party"],"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\/5782","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=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}