The Neocon Con

The Left Coaster dissects a recent Newsweek article calling into question the foreign policy intentions of the Bush Administration. Snippet:

Kristol’s comment at the end of the story is telling. And it seems to indicate to me that these guys are just the way I originally thought they were before the PNAC stuff emerged: a bunch of inflexible cold-war Neanderthals incapable of the multitasking and nuanced big-picture analyses required for diplomacy in the world we face. If Iraq was the endgame all by itself, we can feel relieved and scared at the same time. Relieved that these guys have blundered their way into situations in Afghanistan and Iraq that will tie us down for years while not allowing them to create mischief elsewhere. And scared because even in doing these ill-conceived things in a half-assed and surly manner they have made the world more unsafe than they found it in 2001.