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ISSUESRELATED STORIESJustin Raimondo Taking Down the NeoconsFederal probes will be their downfall It is in the United States, however, that the neoconservatives – the vanguard of the War Party – have suffered the biggest reverses and are in the greatest danger. It is one thing to have your policies discredited – and quite another to wind up behind bars because of them.
Jerry Landay Simon SaidThe Neocon Hothouse that William Simon Built American democracy is in deep trouble. George Bush has brought into government a cabal of right-wing radicals who now control the Republican Party, and, through the party, dominate all three branches of the federal government.
Michael Lind How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington – and Launched a War
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ISSUE: NeoconservatismNeoconservatismAccording to SourceWatch.org: A neo-conservative (abbreviated as neo-con or neocon) is part of a U.S. based political movement rooted in liberal Cold War anticommunism and a backlash to the social liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s. These liberals drifted toward conservatism: thus they are new (neo) conservatives. They favor an aggressive unilateral U.S. foreign policy. They generally believe that elites protect democracy from mob rule. Sometimes the spelling is "neoconservative."
Jim Lobe & Michael Flynn The Rise and Decline of the NeoconservativesShortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks...an influential, neoconservative-led pressure group called the Project for the New American Century issued a letter to the president calling for a dramatic reshaping of the Middle East as part of the war on terror. Although many of the items on the neoconservatives' agenda, including ousting Saddam Hussein, were eventually adopted by the George W. Bush administration, the group's remarkable string of successes has gradually given way to a steady decline...the increasing isolation of this political faction coupled with recent political events in the United States point to the potential emergence of a more cautious, realist-inspired agenda during the final two years of the Bush presidency. Eric Alterman Neoconning the MediaA Very Short History of NeoconservatismWithin the past month or so the political/cultural group known as the Neoconservatives (Neocons) have lost two of their central magazine. The first, ,The Public Interest, a journal of domestic affairs edited by Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer, announced that it would be folding. Almost simultaneously 10 members of the editorial board of The National Interest, a foreign policy journal also founded by Kristol, resigned in protest over the 'realist' direction taken by the magazine under its new owners at the Nixon Center. But save your tears for the Neocons, because they can afford to lose a magazine or two. Neoconservatives have never lacked for publications from which to pontificate. In fact, for much of the movement's three and a half decades observers have quipped that it has enjoyed more magazines than members. Christian Science Monitor Empire BuildersNeoconservatives and their blueprint for power
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RELATED STORIESNeoconservatism at SourceWatch.org
Glen Greenwald Debate with Frank GaffneyNeoconservatism has been exposed as the rotted and bloodthirsty ideology, but the movement is far from dead For those who were unable to listen, C&L has now posted the full audio podcast of the debate I had last night on the Alan Colmes Show with Frank Gaffney, one of the most extremist, pernicious and influential neoconservatives in our country. The debate covered many topics, including the (now-removed) vile Op-Ed he wrote on Wednesday, which relied upon a fabricated quote from Abraham Lincoln, equated opposition to the Leader and the war with treason, and called for Senators such as Carl Levin to be hanged as traitors.
Martin Jacques The neocons have finished what the Vietcong startedVietnam traumatised the US but left its power intact; Iraq, however, will be far more serious for the superpower ...The neoconservatives suddenly find themselves isolated and embattled: Rumsfeld has been sacked, Cheney has gone quiet, the likes of Richard Perle are confined to the sidelines. The president is on his own and it is difficult to see how Bush can avoid moving towards the ISG position. The political map is being redrawn with extraordinary alacrity.
Arthur Silber Not to be Technical About It, but These People Are CrazyJoshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, writes in Foreign Policy about what the neoconservatives should do now, and how they must "sharpen [their] game." Ahem.
Gary Kamiya Neoconservatism -- RIPThe moralistic ideology has utterly failed. But as long as Bush still abides by it, his disastrous "war on terror" will drag on The neoconservatives who dreamed up America's Iraq nightmare are rushing desperately about, searching for scapegoats. Their favorite whipping boy is yesterday's jutting-jawed hero, Donald Rumsfeld, who has been unceremoniously tossed onto the scrapheap. But they also blame the National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Paul Bremer, Gen. Tommy Franks and George W. Bush himself. The only thing they don't blame is the actual culprit -- neoconservative ideology itself.
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