{"id":4489,"date":"2004-06-21T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2004-06-21T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T11:45:50","slug":"listen-to-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"listen to Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puaf.umd.edu\/faculty\/people\/galstonm.html\">Bill Galston <\/a>is my boss (and friend). Therefore, I got a big kick out of Kenneth Pollack&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20040628&#038;s=pollack062804\">article <\/a>in <i>The New Republic<\/i>, entitled, &#8220;Mourning After: My Debate with Bill Galston.&#8221; It begins thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Galston is one helluva debater. In the fall of 2002, well before the invasion of Iraq, I faced Bill&#8211;a University of Maryland professor and a former colleague of mine in the Clinton administration&#8211;in a public debate, and he kicked my rhetorical ass. He did it by holding up a copy of my book, <i>The Threatening Storm<\/i>, and saying to the audience, &#8220;If we were going to get Ken Pollack&#8217;s war, I could be persuaded to support it. But we are not going to get Ken Pollack&#8217;s war; we are going to get George Bush&#8217;s war, and that is a war I will not support.&#8221; Bill&#8217;s words haunted me throughout the run-up to the invasion. Several months ago, I sent him a note conceding that he had been right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Galston is my boss (and friend). Therefore, I got a big kick out of Kenneth Pollack&#8217;s article in The New Republic, entitled, &#8220;Mourning After: My Debate with Bill Galston.&#8221; It begins thus: Bill Galston is one helluva debater. In the fall of 2002, well before the invasion of Iraq, I faced Bill&#8211;a University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-and-democratic-theory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}