Word: neocons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pointed out in this space that corgis appear to be put together with parts borrowed from a number of other dogs--the parts, as it happens, that the other dogs were quite happy to pass along. Perot himself complained to CNN not long ago simply because William Kristol, the neocon sound biter, said on a CNN program that he believes Perot to be insane...
...other famous son with a new magazine this week is William Kristol, whose father Irving is an elder statesman of neoconservatism. Kristol is editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard, a conservative review of politics that he founded with John Podhoretz (son of noted neocon Norman) and Fred Barnes (ex of the New Republic) with financing from Rupert Murdoch. Let George bill itself hopefully as "post partisan.'' At the Standard it's the dawn of a postliberal age, for which they would provide a forum and rumpus room, a place where conservatives could not only cackle over the death throes...
...Buchanan will lose. By Super Tuesday at the latest, his candidacy will crash and burn. He will, however, succeed in pressuring the president back to the position from which he began and won the 1988 campaign--squarely on the (neocon-servative) Right...
...other side of the new schism, Irving Kristol, a founder of neoconservatism (and of National Interest), hears in some voices of the neocon chorus "echoes of the 1930s -- echoes of nativism and xenophobia, indifference (or worse) to Nazism and fascism, broad hints of anti-Semitism." He does not name names, but he clearly has in mind Buchanan, who has created a furor by insinuating that Jews fanned the flames of the gulf war. Kristol believes that in an increasingly interdependent world, "Fortress America" is simply not an option...