Where Do the Neocons Go from Here?

Business Week Online ^ | 5/6/2003

[Utah Girl]

While the Bush Administration struggles to plant the seeds of democracy in the scorched earth of Iraq, the neoconservative thinkers who provided the intellectual firepower for military action against Saddam Hussein are already looking beyond Baghdad. Convinced that as the sole superpower, America has both the means and the manifest destiny to promote democratic reform around the globe, neocons inside and outside the Bush Administration are eager to press forward with their muscular foreign policy. Toppling Saddam, they argue, is just a prelude to large-scale regime change in the Persian Gulf and beyond.

[general_re]

As sensible and effective as this measure has proven to be, the concept seems to elude liberals, especially press liberals, who see only a "rift" or "struggle" between clear-headed, rational appeasers at the State Department and these frightening new interlopers, the evil Neocons — spawn of the Pentagon.

Rather surprising, since back when most of the graybeards in the press were cutting their journalistic teeth, Nixon and Kissinger were playing virtually the same game.

[ValenB4]

There's only one place for the neocons to go. Down. Down into the deep dark bowels of Hades where they belong. Bill Kristol and his frighteningly ugly and deformed teeth will no doubt neuter poor Cerberus.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Kristol isn't that ugly.

I take it you survived?

[ValenB4]

And our stuttering would-be-pseudo-emperor-Claudius will join him there. As Livia would say "Bye-bye Du-Du-Dubya."

[ValenB4]

What is with you!? You write replies before I even finish responding to yours! I can't compete!

[Cathryn Crawford]

I don't know how to stick out my tongue at you over the internet, but consider it done...

[Cathryn Crawford]

I'm just soooo good you know...and I'm juggling Freep mail and an IM chat all at the same time.

[ValenB4]

How do I get parentheses behind my name? Do I have to subscribe to the Meekly Substandard?

[Cathryn Crawford]

Parenthesis? What are you talking about?

[Consort]

No one is going to divide us neo paleo macro poly meta archeo pluri pan mono multi myria meso medio mani oligo
hypo veteri seni iso syn ultra ceno uni novi ideo intimi omni nema paro idio mega ortho para peri pachy proto pseudo sym tauto teleo syl auto hyper holo exo endo dys caco amphi allo acro ambi ante apo sover contra de intus super circum extra conto ento infra intra trans post con retro sub ecto supra inter per meth conservatives. We are united.

[ValenB4]

Behind your name it says Self-righteous blah blah blah.

[nopardons]

As always, insightful post and right on the mark !

BRAVO !

It is also long past due, that " neo-com " be put aside and no longer used to mean any damned thing, perjoratively , on FR.

[Cathryn Crawford]

It's not blah blah blah!!!

Write what you want in the tagline section.

So long as it doesn't say Cathryn Crawford is a neocon idiot, okay?

[ValenB4]

You seem to have multiple personality disorder. It must be nice being your own best friend.

[ValenB4]

Tagline section? Where is that?

[nopardons]

Barbra Striesand !

Listen, newbie, Ronald Reagan is a " neo-con "; so are a lot of people Conservatives like.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Below Your Reply:

it says Tag Line (optional, printed after your name on post)

[Consort]

And you seem to have none at all. Chill out.

[nopardons]

Since you think that President Bush the younger, is rather like the Emporer Claudius, then you should at least attempt to know something about him, other than what you get from a British T.V. series. Have you even ever bothered to read Robert Graves two books, which " I CLAUDIUS " was based on ? How about historical works, from contenporanious authors through the present, about the real Claudius ? I doubt that you have done any of that.

In fact, the Emporer Claudius was quite the man! Not a bumbler and far from being an idiot. President Bush isn't too shabby himself. Now, dear, go play in traffic. ;^)