{"id":320,"date":"2006-05-31T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T23:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2006-05-31T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T23:29:32","slug":"baby-boomer-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Baby-boomer Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Times\"><strong>JAMES TARANTO <\/strong><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110008452\">WSJ Best of the Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font>&#8220;Baby-boomer liberalism, with its smug sense of moral superiority and its  impatience with America&#8217;s imperfections, is today the prevailing worldview among  many of our elite institutions, not least the so-called mainstream media. This  explains why Dotty Lynch is puzzled that Iraq hasn&#8217;t become another Vietnam.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>The answer to her question is that Iraq isn&#8217;t Vietnam because &#8220;Vietnam&#8221; was  the product of a peculiar set of conditions at an unusual moment in history&#8211;a  moment that has long since passed.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110008452\">more\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: JAMES TARANTO WSJ Best of the Web &#8220;Baby-boomer liberalism, with its smug sense of moral superiority and its impatience with America&#8217;s imperfections, is today the prevailing worldview among many of our elite institutions, not least the so-called mainstream media. This explains why Dotty Lynch is puzzled that Iraq hasn&#8217;t become another Vietnam. The answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}