{"id":38,"date":"2004-03-31T18:20:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-09-10T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T23:08:12","slug":"an-intellectually-honest-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"An Intellectually Honest Conservative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice occasionally to come across the intellectually honest Conservative. A rare breed these days. So it was nice to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.com\/index.php?dish_inc=archives\/2004_03_28_dish_archive.html#108070682893345612\" target=\"_blank\">this blog item<\/a> from Andrew Sullivan today. Of note&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">CONCEDING A POINT: Here&#8217;s where some war critics surely have a point. Fighting back aggressively can and will increase the numbers of alienated young men across the globe eager to kill in the name of anti-Western Islamism&#8230;The strongest argument for Kerry is that we have already gained as much as we can for the time being with hard power and war; he won&#8217;t pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan; he won&#8217;t be able to duck a serious response to another terror attack; but he might help ease some of the hatred of the United States that this president has &#8211; undeservedly, in my view, but still undeniably &#8211; ratcheted to unseen levels.<\/div>\n<p>Not sure if it&#8217;s because he&#8217;s British or gay, but it&#8217;s certainly nice to see a bit of both &#8220;nuance&#8221; (overworked word of the year so far in 2004) and honesty from the Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice occasionally to come across the intellectually honest Conservative. A rare breed these days. So it was nice to catch this blog item from Andrew Sullivan today. Of note&#8230; CONCEDING A POINT: Here&#8217;s where some war critics surely have a point. Fighting back aggressively can and will increase the numbers of alienated young men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,24,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectually-honest-conservative-award","category-iraq-war","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}