Are Neocons Finished and What Is Their Most Pernicious Idea?

[Cary]

I don't see a whole lot of discussion of any of this. Of course I may have missed some good threads here.

I think they're through thanks to their miscalculations in carrying out their priority project, the invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately I still see hangover of the idea that we could have "won" in Iraq, if only. . . This is too eerily similar to their ideas about Vietnam.

Of course it was predictable and predicted that they would attempt to shift blame for the loss to "liberals", "the mainstream media", or any other boogeyman they could latch onto.

Which leads into my idea of the neocon's most pernicious idea, which to me is their idea that there is no such thing as "relativism". Unfortunately this brings them into the living rooms of people who are too lazy to think and people who just don't want to think in anything other than black and white. It is also the underpinning for their relationship with truth, which is of course that the truth is not important. We all know how this has played out.

These people are truly dangerous. They are dragging us down. Are they finished? How can we keep them in the wilderness, where they belong?

Too much more to rant on here. . .