In a freak of nature, it appears that some want to go on calling themselves "neo-conservative", without a shred of embarrassment.
I've been meaning to write a kind of lengthy meditation on the future of neoconservatism, taking off from Mark Lilla's entertaining and mostly unfavorable review of Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right. - Reihan
Can I sugges Ode to a Grecian Urn, as a starting point?
CAN I HELP DRIVE THE NAILS IN THAT COFFIN, PLEASE, BECAUSE WE'RE ALL GOING SINGING FROM PAIN TO THAT FUNERAL, WITH ANY LUCK?
Neoconservatism was a half-baked effort to attach a "governing philosophy" to modern conservatism, which was (and is) just an ersatz coalition in America, really.
However, in attaching a philosophy, their aching lot detached from reality, in many ways, perhaps the greatest of which was by
I suspect most are ready to be rid of the episode in history in which neo-cons dry-humped the conservative movement in America, ... I won't be reading any "neocon revival" literature, except as part of a domestic threat matrix, will you?
enthusiastically embracing a "hope-for-the-best- don't-plan-for-the-rest" approach to military engagement.This led to a one trillion dollar violent, nation-building quagmire, with a standing army in a foreign land, hui clos and without foreign financial support, fighting terrorist battles of their own creation in a multi-dimensional struggle that was not and is not their own to win completely.
Almost nothing is without a silver lining, but if Reihan wants to write about neoconservatism, "Brain Fart" seems to suggest itself (if that is not too crude for the blogosophere), although that's more kind that what it has truly amounted to in action.
No, I suspect most are ready to be rid of the episode in history in which neo-cons dry-humped the conservative movement in America, at the risk of mixing metaphors. I won't be reading any "neocon revival" literature, will you?
