Well, that makes slightly more sense.
I have no intention of bandying about particular personalities. I know who is considered a neocon and who is not, and what the neocon point of view on foreign policy is, broadly, and it bears little resemblance to your slurs.
Pretending that the Administration is in thrall to Perle, rather than acting in a fairly consensual fashion, is suspiciously close to anti- semitism, frankly. It amounts to the pretense that Jewish interests have hijacked American foreign policy, rather than acknowledging that Bush, Rice, Cheney, and Rumsfeld could easily have come to the same decisions alone.
Neocons are interested in promoting democracy, and, failing that, in promoting more moderate regimes capable of evolving in a democratic direction. The fact that they expect regimes to lead, rather than be cowed by transitory public opinion, is neither here nor there. |
