Neoconservatives despair over US persistence with diplomacy

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Days after Israel began its bombing of Lebanon and Hezbollah missiles began landing on Israel's northern cities, The Weekly Standard published an editorial by its editor, William Kristol, headlined "It's Our War".

Kristol is a leading neoconservative and The Weekly Standard's list of contributing editors is a virtual who's who of the movement's leading thinkers and proselytisers, many with close ties to the Bush Administration and the American Enterprise Institute, Washington's most influential conservative foreign-policy think tank.

The Kristol editorial was a belligerent response to those who reckon the neoconservative "moment" has passed - consigned to wherever it is that failed foreign policy doctrines end up - and an exhortation to the Bush Administration to resist descending further into the sort of confused multilateralism and useless diplomacy that has marked its dealings with North Korea, and especially Iran.

Neoconservatives don't do nuance. Kristol's position is crystal clear: what is happening in the Middle East is an Islamist-Israeli war, part of the wider conflict between Islamist totalitarianism and liberal democracy and moderate Islam. To fight this war, the US has to confront not just terrorist networks but the states that sponsor them.

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[FloridaPat]

1. The war in the ME is a continuation of the Crusades - Muslim vs Christians

Israel just happens to be there in the middle because where else could one put the state of Israel. The Christians are mad that God had the nerve to give all that oil to the Muslims. And the Muslims are mad because they practice their religion but the Christians are still running things. And considering the USA creates more terrorist then anyone else, the war on terror is another jingle to make Americans support their gov't without too many questions.

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2. Crusades, pt II... barbarians all

Human beings suck, IMO. :-( :cry: