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Columnist Charles Krauthammer's contemptuous dismissal of America's need for allies in today's dangerous world was breathtaking in its neocon unilateralism and arrogance [Jan. 12]. As he scorned the need for traditional U.S. allies, Krauthammer also acknowledged that the "war on many fronts" is consuming American "blood and treasure" while China builds an economic and military superpower and Europe "knits itself into another continental colossus." Shouldn't the U.S. be using its influence and diplomacy to rebuild relations with these rising powers to influence their evolution in ways favorable to American interests? Haughtily ignoring our traditional allies...
...wonder neocon sharks smell blood in a pool of Democrats who would rather root against Yankee Republicans than extol their own virtues. It’s early in the campaign, yes, too early to expect Democratic hopefuls to put forward clear platforms. But it’s not too early to lambaste them for their craven concessions to political expediency...
...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...