But See, They Never Really Left…

the neocons, that is, whose idolatrous faith in the United States of America as the instrument through which God (or history, if your theism is not so specific) will save and redeem the world is a bipartisan faith, held deeply by Democrat and Republican alike. Indeed, it’s one of the few things those in Washington who run the country actually agree upon, this nonsensical “view of the world that understands that American power still furnishes the margin between freedom and tyranny, and between prosperity and chaos.”

Don’t look now, but after a brief exile, neoconservatism may be mounting a comeback…or so claim some conservatives, anyway. Leading the pack today is Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who says the hawkish political philosophy that guided the Bush administration to glory holds growing allure for those dissatisfied with Obama. Stephens is not alone. With the administration facing major foreign policy challenges, a number of right-leaning pundits are making the case that neoconservatism is out of the dog house.

When The Mahatma Obama (pbuh) decides to make war on Iran—and he will decide to do that—he will suddenly have lots of neocon friends and supporters. More than he can count. Paul Wolfowitz may even find himself employable in government again.

Have “progressive” [sic] supporters of the Mahatma, obsessed as they are with race and tolerance and equality, given any thought to what it will mean that the face of America’s brutal, murderous, and intolerant global empire will be a Black face? Or do they not care, so long as the promise of some kind of government-supported health care is dangled before their noses as an option?

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4:41 pm on September 29, 2009