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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: jlallen who wrote (24402)1/6/2004 12:56:30 PM
From: Mao II  Respond to of 93284
 
Brooks uses a particularly self-serving and insidious parenthetical comment here -- "con is short for 'conservative' and neo is short for 'Jewish'".
Back in the 30s Jews were conflated with Communists; Brooks turns that upside down, infusing opposition to neocons with a vague anti-Semiticism. Its in his own head, maybe. But nowhere else. M2