What Next For The Neocons?
By Paul Gottfried With the revelation that the chief suspect in the outing of CIA analyst Valerie Plame is I. Lewis Scooter Libby, Dick Cheneys Chief of Staff, aptly described by Antiwar.coms Justin Raimondo as the nexus of the neocon network in Washington, the neocon empire is now unmistakably under siege and, in Libbys case at least, possibly on the way to jail. The war in Iraq has failed to crush definitively those who rattle the neocons, either in the Middle East or here. Their recent urgent calls, for example in the New York Post, to raise new armies and revenues to finish the war against terrorism face rising public resistance. The British Guardian may be exaggerating (September 23), when it depicts the neocons hunkered down in the AEIs fortress-like building, and arguing, counterintutively, that continued Iraqi sniping is a good thing because it steels American resolve. But the ultra-hawks might be in over their heads. And, before long, they may be fading from the Bush Administr
