UPDATE The Neo-Conservatives (Neo- Cons)

READ HERE Pat Buchanan's article "Is the Neoconservative Moment Over?" in The American Conservative (June 16,2003)

Excerpts from the article:

The salad days of the neoconservatives, which began with the president’s Axis-of-Evil address in January 2002 and lasted until the fall of Baghdad may be coming to an end. Indeed, it is likely the neoconservatives will never again enjoy the celebrity and cachet in which they reveled in their romp to war on Iraq.

For a movement that is small in number and utterly dependent on its proximity to power, the neocons have made major mistakes. They have insulted too many U.S. allies, boasted too much of their connections and influence, attracted too much attention to themselves, and antagonized too many adversaries. In this snake pit of a city, their over-developed penchant for self-promotion is not necessarily an asset.

By now, all their columnists and house organs—Commentary, National Review, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard—are known. Their front groups—AEI (American Enterprise Institute), JINSA (Jewish Institute for National SecurityAffairs ) —have all been identified and bracketed. Their agents of influence—Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, Bolton, Wurmser, Abrams, et alia—have all been outed.

Neoconservatives are now seen as separate and apart from the Bush loyalists, with loyalties and an agenda all their own.

If Americans decide they were lied to, that the Iraqi war was not fought for America’s interests, that its propagandists harbored a hidden agenda—as they decided after World War I and exposure of the “merchants of death”—they will know exactly whom to blame and whom to hold accountable.

The weakness of the neocons is that, politically speaking, they are parasites. They achieve influence only by attaching themselves to powerful hosts, be it “Scoop” Jackson, Ronald Reagan, or Rupert Murdoch.

When the host dies or retires, they must scramble to find a new one. Thus, they have blundered in isolating themselves from and alienating almost every other once-friendly group on the Right.

More on Neo-Cons

Read TROTSKY, STRAUSS, AND THE NEOCONS

Read OUTING THE NEOCONS

Read Israel, American Jews, and the War on Iraq

Read Whose War?

Read Neo Cons in Denial

Read Zionism Unbound

Read Neo-conservatives and Republican Foreign Policy, 1976-2000

Read 'Neo-conservatives' vs. the Real McCoy

Read Behind the Neo-Con Curtain



Read Philosopher Kings- Leo Strauss and the Neocons

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