The New Left, Back to the Future of Original Neo-Cons

[Annie]

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070115&s=trb011507

TRB FROM WASHINGTON
New Class
by Peter Beinart
Post date: 12.21.06
Issue date: 01.15.07

Virtually no one still believes that the United States can quickly impose democracy in foreign lands. Almost everyone wants a pragmatic foreign policy, not a crusading one. Fewer and fewer Americans think our government can fix Arab culture. In other words, neoconservatism is back.

First-generation neoconservatism, that is. In a historical irony, many of the people who most thunderously denounce neoconservatism actually sound a lot like the original neocons themselves.

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[BaronVonBigmeat]

I thought "paleoconservative" was the correct term.

 

[Annie]

I thought "paleoconservative" was the correct term.

Whatever...