An article in The American Conservative thoroughly trashed neocon David Brooks (the "sane" neocon who manages to get gigs on "liberal" Sunday morning shows like Meet the (De)Press(ed), as hot-mouth Levin likes to call it). It seems Brooks doesn't understand that the current "war fatigue" in the US (just when we need to start another one with either Pootie Poot or the Ayatollahs) is due in great part to what it's author calls the "delusions" of George W. Bush's Second Inaugural address agenda: "The U.S. has suffered from an absurd overconfidence in the efficacy of hard power for more than a decade (and really ever since the Gulf War), and Americans have been recoiling from the costs and failures associated with that."
With conservatives viewing the foreign policy of the last two Bush presidents like that, the prospect of selling them on a third chance to get it right seems a difficult task, to say the least.
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