The Mystery of Neocon Influence
The
neocons – despite the disastrous Iraq War and other harm they have
caused – remain influential in Official Washington, given time on talk
shows and space on op-ed pages to expound on their latest dreams of
American intervention in the Middle East. But ex-CIA analyst Paul R.
Pillar asks, why are they still listened to?
By Paul R. Pillar
Recent attempts by adversaries of President Barack Obama to blame him
for yet another undesirable circumstance — in this case, popular
outrage in the Middle East over an anti-Islam video — remind us of one
of the oddest aspects of discourse in the United States about foreign
and security policy: that the same people who not too many years ago
inflicted on us the Iraq War are still part of that discourse.
They get air time and column space, and evidently at least somebody seems to be listening to them.
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