{"id":484575,"date":"2010-03-29T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80760"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:26:43","slug":"yoo-at-berkeley-i%e2%80%99m-%e2%80%98a-shining-beacon-of-capitalism-and-democracy-surrounded-by-a-sea-of-marxism%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484575","title":{"rendered":"Yoo at Berkeley: I\u2019m \u2018A Shining Beacon of Capitalism and Democracy Surrounded by a Sea of Marxism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol J. Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-me-john-yoo29-2010mar29,0,3409013,full.story\">profiles John Yoo<\/a>, who provides some of the most deliciously boastful quotes this side of a James Bond movie. He&#8217;s done, he thinks, with the campaign to prosecute him for his advice during the Bush years: &#8220;I hope that this closes this chapter in trying to use criminal and ethical charges to carry out political fights against the policy of a past administration.&#8221; But he has the most fun tweaking his colleagues and his academic environment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think of myself as being West Berlin during the Cold War, a shining beacon of capitalism and democracy surrounded by a sea of Marxism,&#8221; Yoo observes, sipping iced tea in the faculty club lounge, a wan smile registering the discomfort of colleagues walking by en route to the bar.<span id=\"more-80760\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He sees his neighbors as the human figures of &#8220;a natural history museum of the 1960s,&#8221; the Telegraph Avenue tableau of a graying, long-haired, pot-smoking counterculture stuck in the ideology&#8217;s half-century-old heyday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like looking at the panoramic displays of troglodytes sitting around the campfire with their clubs. Here, it&#8217;s tie-dye and marijuana. It&#8217;s just like the 1960s, with the Vietnam War still to protest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Troglodytes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol J. Williams profiles John Yoo, who provides some of the most deliciously boastful quotes this side of a James Bond movie. He&#8217;s done, he thinks, with the campaign to prosecute him for his advice during the Bush years: &#8220;I hope that this closes this chapter in trying to use criminal and ethical charges to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}