Take a little stock. Here's an editorial from July 2006 in the New York Sun called "Bring Back the Neocons." The editorial argues that they had the best ideas for the Middle East. Later that year the Bush doctrine was soundly rejected by the voters, and subsequently Doug Feith's book died, as did David Wurmser's revival tour, and neoconservatism was a bad word in the '08 election, inasmuch as it was ever mentioned, which it wasn't, though the New Yorker did attack Sheldon Adelson. In the middle of the campaign, The New York Sun folded (though the website is still going), and at the end of the election, David Frum distanced himself from neoconservatism. Bill Kristol, who is not as protean as Frum, has since left the New York Times. Nobody now listens to Joe Lieberman, and Jeffrey Goldberg has taken a step down the backslope of his own celebrity in the Jewish community by taking the wrong position on the Gaza slaughter. The answer to where the neocons have gone is: They supported endless war in the Middle East as a response to 9/11 and a guarantee of Israeli expansion; and Americans chose a different path.
(Phil Weiss)
