His only claim that qualified him as a neocon that I can remember was that he was/is a hawk, and supported Bush’s Middle Eastern Wars (both 41 & 43), so people assumed his was conservative. However, many leftists were hawks...
They were the Scoop Jackson Democrats that got kicked out of the Democratic Party.
Yes that was the chief objection by some friends that Irv supported Iraq. I did too insofar as getting rid of sadism Hussein and his weapons ( many of which were removed to safety by that famous fleet of 500 Russian trucks). For whatever it’s worth, I envisioned a short action not a protracted war. Maybe I was right but it turned into the long affair that friends here objected to. So knowing how it turned out, it’s easy to criticize in retrospect. I understand that. It’s similar in some respects today to the probk m eith blood thirsty mudlim warlords in Iran. the Muslim world Has a serious sickness. Hopefully as time goes forward this danger can be cured