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Sunday, January 13th, 2008...8:51 am

Neo-Conservative Ideologues

Those interested in the subject may find interesting this excellent report by Laura Rozen (a real journalist) on how, after seven years, the Bush administration, perhaps concerned with Bush’s legacy, has finally kicked the administration’s neo-conservatives to the curb.

There is also this Timothy Noah review of Jacob Heilbrunn’s new book, “They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons”, to which I was led by Ms. Rozen’s blog War and Piece.

What puzzles me is why the neo-cons, with their history of monumental failures and criminal activities, have endured and wielded such foreign policy influence for over thirty years. The movement’s chief achievement has been to make the world a more dangerous place. Remember this is the group of “intellectuals” who cooked up the idea of selling missiles to Iran to finance their Nicaraguan proxy war.

Like all fanatics, the neo-cons seem so convinced of their superior rectitude that they seem able to justify anything, including lying, killing, and subverting the Constitution in pursuance of their “ideals”.

I have read the neo-cons referred to as “idealists” and “utopians”. Given their disregard for the rule of law and human life in pursuance of their Wilsonian ideals, (which Wilson, himself, abandoned) I think psychopathic is a more apt description.

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