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Have neoconservatives hijacked the Bush administration's foreign policy? That's the charge of opponents of the Iraq war on both the left and the right. Eric Alterman thinks that an "easily manipulated" president has been the neocons' victim. Michael Lind agrees: "The neo- cons took advantage of Bush's ignorance and inexperience" to take over American foreign policy, and Don Rumsfeld, an "elderly figurehead," was unable to stop them. Patrick Buchanan claims that a "neoconservative cabal" is running American foreign policy in the interests of Israel. Similar theories are widely expressed, with less coyness, in the Arab world.
The cabal thesis is chiefly a testament ...