The “neoconservative cabal”

Joshua Muravchik, writing in Commentary, successfully defends the neoconservatives from the following charges that have been thrown at them with such reckless and sometimes venomous abandon over the last two years: that they are Trotskyites, that they are Straussians (whatever that means), and that the ulterior motive driving their foreign policy is an ethnic-based desire to help Israel. What the neoconservatives really believe in, says Muravchik, is defending democracy everywhere it exists and pro-actively spreading it around the world. I agree with Muravchik on all these points. It is simply that I think the neoconservatives are dangerously mistaken on the last point—their advocacy of using American power to advance global democratization. That agenda is not only utopian in itself, but inseparable from the neocons’ indifference to the defense and preservation of the historical American nation.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 29, 2003 11:11 PM | Send