A DIFFERENT KIND OF REVIEW FOR PNM<\/b><\/p>\n
Noted liberal blogger Kevin Drum had a less than evanescent review of The Pentagon’s New Map the other day <\/a>that I found fairly disappointing. Not that Kevin disagreed so much as that he didn’t seem to have really grasped Dr. Barnett’s argument well enough to spark an intelligent discussion in the comments section. There was some thoughtful criticism near the end plus Critt <\/a>and TM Lutas <\/a>put in an appearance but in the main Kevin’s audience, few of whom actually read the book, seemed to be firmly convinced that PNM was an imperialist, neoconservative, plot.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A DIFFERENT KIND OF REVIEW FOR PNM Noted liberal blogger Kevin Drum had a less than evanescent review of The Pentagon’s New Map the other day that I found fairly disappointing. Not that Kevin disagreed so much as that he didn’t seem to have really grasped Dr. Barnett’s argument well enough to spark an intelligent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}