It's a pleasure to see the internecine warfare on the right. Paleo vs. neocon, 'old oil' vs. neocon, etc.


The Anti-Neocon
David Corn
www.tompaine.com
July 20, 2005
"I'm the anti-neocon." That's how Robert Merry recent y described himself to me. After reading his new book--Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition --I have to say: He got that right.
His book is the most scorching mainstream critique of the neocons and their misadventure in Iraq that I have encountered. Merry, the publisher of Congressional Quarterly and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, rips apart that small band of ideologically driven chickenhawks and leaves their bones scattered on the floor of a Council of Foreign Relations conference room. Merry is a hard-ass practitioner of global realpolitik. There is not a smidgen of sentiment in a single sentence of this book. He's certainly not keeping company with one-worlders and those who would identify (or misidentify, in his view) American national security interests with feel-good global humanitarianism. But in a classic example of that old Middle East cliche--the enemy of my enemy is my friend--he has produced a book that liberal-minded foreign policy folks ought to gobble up. And I would dare the neocons to enter Merry's knife-throwing gallery.
http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/07/the_antineocon.php