09Jan04-Justin Raimondo-EVERYTHING YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT NEOCONS - But were afraid to ask….
by Justin Raimondo
They're coming out of the closet, so to speak, faster than David Brooks can deny their very existence: I'm talking about neocons, of course, that dreaded sub-species of right-wing ideologues whose fabulous history has become the stuff of legend. Brooks says that to even breathe the n-word is to flirt with Hitlerian tendencies, and Joel Mowbray agrees. So, too, does Jonah Goldberg, and that seems to finalize the verdict of the jury. Except that it doesn't.
Max Boot dissents, for one, acknowledging, in a Wall Street Journal piece entitled "What the Heck is a Neocon?", that they do, indeed, exist, but that us neocon-watchers – a very small group, at least up until now – have it all wrong. They aren't going to let neocon-phobes define who and what they are, no sirree! Neocon Pride is here, and it's mighty queer – but we're just gonna have to get used to it! That is the scintillating theme of Boot's latest screed, in the January-February issue of Foreign Policy magazine (not online yet), which complains that "critics have twisted the neocons' identities and thinking on U.S. foreign policy into a unrecognizable caricature."
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