More on the alleged spy

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   Anonymous

   August 29, 2004

   This spy story puts me in mind of apiece titled “Look Who's Feuding,” by Danny Postel in the July AmericanProspect (www.prospect.org).  It notes somefriction between neoconservatives (like, say, the aforementioned Perle, Feith andWolfowitz?) and other factions of the GOP, stemming in large part fromthe Iraq adventure and its ill effects.  Here are his closingparagraphs:Of course,it's still possible that theextraction process [i.e., the expulsion of the neocons from the GOPtemple] might not occur. For one thing, Republicans havebeen nothing if not disciplined; surely they will apply whatever Scotchtape and glue they need to in order to keep these rifts from becomingtoo public before November. For another, Iraq could yet “work out,” atleast in the sense that the situation will settle down a bit andelections will be held as scheduled.But whatever the future brings,something dramatic has already happened — and continues to happenevery day behind closed doors in conservatism's rarefied redoubts,where the quiet whir of confident manifestoes being typed out oncomputers has been replaced by the more insistent buzz of knives beingsharpened. Irving Kristol famously defined a neoconservative as “aliberal who has been mugged by reality.” Many Republicans — reachingthe point of critical mass — are now coming to define themselves asconservatives who have been mugged by neoconservatives. If Bush losesthe election over Iraq, their ranks will only grow more critical andmore massive. But even if he wins, listen closely for the sounds ofsilence..

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