The New L-Word: Neocon - New York Times

"what's a Neocon? A Liberal mugged by reality." Almost sounds like one of Joel's book titles.

Great op-ed by a guy I don't usually agree with, Roger Cohen, who argues that the attack on neocons has made it impossible for liberals to ever support military intervention for the greater good. If this is how liberals thought in 1941, g-d forbid, what would have become of the world? This might be the greatest long-term damage of the Iraq invasion...

Op-ed Excerpt:

"Neocon has morphed into an all-purpose insult for anyone who still believes that American power is inextricable from global stability and still thinks the muscular anti-totalitarian U.S. interventionism that brought down Slobodan Milosevic has a place, and still argues, like Christopher Hitchens, that ousting Saddam Hussein put the United States “on the right side of history... the term, in these Walt-Mearsheimered days, often denotes more than that. Neocon, for many, has become shorthand for neocon-Zionist conspiracy, whatever that may be, although probably involving some combination of plans to exploit Iraqi oil, bomb Iran and apply U.S. power to Israel’s benefit."

The New L-Word: Neocon - New York Times