{"id":696,"date":"2004-04-20T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2004-04-20T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T13:50:00","slug":"696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>GEITNER SIMMONS, NO MERE SPECTATOR<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The host of Regions of Mind <a href=\"http:\/\/regionsofmind.blog-city.com\/\">cooly dissects an anti-Neocon jeremiad <\/a>from Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke in print edition of the American Spectator that argues that today&#8217;s neoconservatives are far outside the foreign policy tradition of Ronald Reagan. Geitner is right on target in his critique &#8211; the two scholars in question seem to be either constructing a polemical argument by ignoring contrary historical evidence or they are not terribly well informed about the details of Reagan administration foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>I will have some comments of my own to add to Geitner&#8217;s in an update explaining why Clarke and Halper&#8217;s thesis is a relatively weak one.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE ON THE UPDATE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a wealth of material tonight, more than I bargained for really, on Reagan&#8217;s Foreign policy and the role of neocons in shaping it. Plus, why viewing internal conflicts over foreign affairs inside the Reagan administration as a primarily ideological struggle of Conservative realists vs. Neoconservative ideologues is not only simplistic but frankly incorrect. I&#8217;m batting it into shape to post tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEITNER SIMMONS, NO MERE SPECTATOR The host of Regions of Mind cooly dissects an anti-Neocon jeremiad from Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke in print edition of the American Spectator that argues that today&#8217;s neoconservatives are far outside the foreign policy tradition of Ronald Reagan. Geitner is right on target in his critique &#8211; the two [&hellip;]<\/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-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}