Neocon Dream, Our Nightmare

Rosa Brooks' column in The Los Angeles Times says, "Reality mugs us all, in the end. In those heady post-9/11 days when the nation's stunned acquiescence made the neoconservative dream of limitless executive and US power seem eminently attainable, the gang running the White House grew fond of quoting pundit Irving Kristol's aphorism: 'A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality.'"
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