TAP: Diggins Blows Apart Neo-Cons as Big on Talk, Weak on Action

[BurtWorm]

Unfortunately, the article is not on line, but it's well worth reading.

The -Ism That Failed

Neoconservatives say we should trust them today because they alone won the Cold War. It's time for a history lesson.

by John Patrick Diggins


Diggins shows how weak Podhoretz was on history, fundamentally, which led him to make some utterly bone-headed pronouncements about communism, anti-communism and liberalism and to completely ignore Islamic fundamentalism in a tepid, tasteless stew that a generation of conservatives lapped up like pabulum--which is exactly what it was. All hat, no cattle. But they do hold the reins of power...