Just when I was beginning to forget all the gifts of the neoconservatives, the New York Sun —funded in part by Juilliard Chairman Bruce Kovner—took care to remind me yesterday, in a sparkling front-page editorial titled “Bring Back the Neocons”:
The neoconservatives said success in Iraq depended on pressing on to neighboring Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. The administration stopped short
I sensed something had gone wrong in Iraq, now I know why…
It seems the neocons are in luck today – Hizbollah has handed them a perfect excuse to bomb Lebanon, then Syria, and eventually Iran, to smithereens, while they still can.
It would have been a lot wiser of them to hold off and wait while the process of global disinvestment from US Treasuries on the part of the rest-of-the-world's governments, and the over-extension of its ground troops, brought the USA to its knees.