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Getting to the bottom of this 'neo' nonsense: Before you talk about conservatives, know what you're doing.

National Review

| June 16, 2003 | Ponnuru, Ramesh | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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