They're Baaack... --- William Kristol creates a new neocon organisation

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/theyre-baaack.html

They're Baaack...

by dday

You didn't think Bill Kristol and the PNAC crowd would just go away, did you?
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/26/project-for-the-rehabilitation-of-neoconservatism/

What do you do if your previous organization — and the ideology behind it — has become inextricably bound in the public’s imagination to one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history? Obviously, shut it down, and start a new organization with a new name.

The Foreign Policy Initiative lists Robert Kagan, Bill Kristol, and Dan Senor on its board of directors, so no prizes for guessing what they’re about (more power, less appeasement, stronger wills.) Kagan and Kristol need no introduction, they’re the Tick and Arthur of disastrously counterproductive military adventurism. Given the staggering costs in American blood, treasure, security, and reputation incurred by their boundless enthusiasm for blowing stuff up, you might think they’d have had the decency to retreat to a Tibetan monastery by now, but sadly no. The way it works in Washington is, if you’re willing to argue for more defense spending, you’ll always find someone willing to fund your think tank.

Dan Senor is less known to the general public, but familiar to those who’ve followed the Iraq debacle closely. From 2003 to 2004, Senor served as a Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman under Paul Bremer. After that smashing success, Senor returned to Washington, where, among other things, in September 2004 he helped write speeches for Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi’s U.S. visit, and then apparently went on television to praise those speeches as evidence of Bush’s accomplishments in Iraq.

Senor is also Campbell Brown's husband, so I'm sure this will be covered extensively on her show, which as you know is both no bias and no bull.

More on it washingtonindependent.com/35885/the-next-new-neoconservative-think-tank-will-totally-redeem-every-neoconservative-idea and on mediamattersaction.org/columns/rabin-havt-20090326


They failed. They start again...

[Odin2005]

1. They are what Karl Popper called the "Eternal revolt against the open society".

It does not surprise me one bit that Leo Strauss, the grandfather of the Neo-Cons, adored Plato, the first reactionary who launched a propagandistic attack against the world's first open society, the Athenian Democracy, in the form of his Republic, the bible of all reactionary authoritarians that were to follow.

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2. Does Kristol have enough sober hours in the day to undertake such a project?

:shrug: