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By Anthony Barnes
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Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run – David Garrick (1717-79)
It's Over.
It's Over.
In its present incarnation, neo-conservatism is – to borrow Vice President Cheney’s phrase -- “in its last throes.” Despite the still-developing legacy of the neo-con-plagued administration of George W. Bush, Jr., it’s quite obvious that no longer can contemporary neo-conservatism be viewed as a viable philosophical commodity.
The Grin and the Chagrined:
PNAC Chairman Bill Kristol (above) insists that neo-conservatism remains relevant in spite of Bush's method of carrying out the philosophy's agenda at home and abroad.
To it’s liberal critics in general and perhaps Bush in particular, the manner in which neo-conservatism has become little more that an evanescent philosophy may be the stuff of schadenfreude. But a bit of malicious joy would be apropos in that George W. Bush is to red meat neo-conservatism, what Jimmy Carter was to insouciant liberalism. Virtually single-handedly, he discredited it.
PNAC Chairman Bill Kristol (above) insists that neo-conservatism remains relevant in spite of Bush's method of carrying out the philosophy's agenda at home and abroad.
To it’s liberal critics in general and perhaps Bush in particular, the manner in which neo-conservatism has become little more that an evanescent philosophy may be the stuff of schadenfreude. But a bit of malicious joy would be apropos in that George W. Bush is to red meat neo-conservatism, what Jimmy Carter was to insouciant liberalism. Virtually single-handedly, he discredited it.
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