Bill Kristol is living proof of this.

Although in his case, you just might be able to persuade me that “insane” simply ought to be replaced with “evil”.

Think there’s some smart, evil ones in there too? Or does it look like total insanity to you? I can never tell.

In fact, if you managed to find a neoconservative who believed that the evil Soviets were *still* engaged in some evil trick plot to make us lower our guard – a very wily trick, what with the dissolving their government and returning autonomy to all their western republics – I wouldn’t be all that surprised.

They’re all mentally ill. Seriously, seriously mentally ill. Not a one of them has recovered from the death of Leon Trotsky – it somehow scarred their collective psyche so badly that they all wander around in a barely functioning fugue state.

Yer Grace, Considering that our TeeVee and radio don’t do any serious foreign policy discussion and our policy-oriented print media really only reach the elite, yeah, that’s about right.

Sports probably plays a certain role, too.

Scares the bejeebers outta me somedays. {

Anyone who says, “[W]e are a warlike people and that we love war.� doesn’t, as a rule, actually live in a war zone and doesn’t ever expect to. Just sayin’.

Gold star, Marq. Hey, just as a present for Ledeen and his very manly buddies, let’s hold the next one in the US! Hey, yeah! What a great idea: they’re such a warlike people, and they love war so much, it’ll be like, totally cool for them! Don’t waste it on those pussy Iraqis, who only want to live their lives without being interrogated or seeing their children murdered. Give it to the US, as a gift!

Alex — Quite right, and I have often mentioned something about that in past posts — not only did necons loathe Nixon/Kissinger/Ford’s detente policies, but they also at times attacked St. Reagan himself when they thought he did not fully appreciate the Soviet Menace. They cannot be pleased until we are at war with everyone, everywhere forever.

Also
“the defeat of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] can accomplish that goal [of taming Iran], because that would demonstrate that the mullahs do not have divine support for their global jihad.”

hmmm, funny that I haven’t seen many conservatives admitting that our failures in Iraq show that their Christian God is against our foreign policy.

tool, first song from the last album. pretty much sums it up for me.

I have an extremely right wing…colleague, i guess friend, a writer, a pretty well known one, who has ledeen esque tendencies. at night he plays on-line war games. i suspect that ledeen does the same, in fact, fuck HE’S IN MY BASE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!)!)!11!!!!

Aw, he looks a lot like one of my uncles did, who was a total sweetheart. Not a good looking sweetheart, though, I admit.

Or a corpse.

Too bad we can’t trade him for my sweet uncle, who would never have advocated throwing tiny countries against a wall. He once carefully wrapped a twenty-dollar bill as a gift. I bet a couple wrapped twenties here and there would work better as a foreign policy than any of Ledeen’s brain farts.