‘I’m Such a Pariah,’ Neocon Reflects

The Forward justly recognizes Matt Brooks of the Republican Jewish Coalition as one of the 50 most important Jews in America, but its piece gives a kind of benediction to the contumely and smears he heaped on Barack Obama, as somehow advancing the next holocaust. Brooks knows what the score is. He says, "I'm such a pariah this year." Important fact. Too bad that the Forward exalts other neolibs and neocons, like Bill Kristol and Jeffrey Goldberg, those two horsemen of the Iraq apocalypse. Where is Glenn Greenwald? Or David Bromwich? Both important voices on the liberal side of the discussion. Bromwich on the neocons: "Never before, in the history of the United States, has there been an
ideological camp so fully formed and equipped to extend itself as
neoconservatism in the year 1999. It was, and remains, a sect that has
some of the properties of a party."