The Best Christmas Present Ever
December 25th, 2006 | by christine |The death of neo-conservatism …
In an article titled “End of the neo-con dream“, BBC details how Iraq kicked PNAC’s ass.
“The Project for the New American Century” has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap things up.
And there’s some infighting among the neo-cons …
In particular, two leading neo-conservatives, Richard Perle and Kenneth Adelman, attacked the Bush team in Vanity Fair magazine. Both had been on a Pentagon advisory board. Both had argued for war in Iraq.
In an article called “Neo Culpa”, Richard Perle declared that had he known how it would turn out, he would have been against it: “I think now I probably would have said: ‘No, let’s consider other strategies’.” (emphasis mine)
Hmmm … so I guess the Dems aren’t the only ones who have buyer’s remorse on Iraq.
Kenneth Adelman said: “They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era.
“Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional.”
Donald Rumsfeld “fooled me”, he said.
He declared of neo-conservatism after Iraq: “It’s not going to sell.”
The best Christmas present ever!!!
update: sigh … Bill Kristol didn’t get the message about the death of neo-con-ism.
