Battle Splits Conservative Magazine

[librechik]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/weekinreview/13kirk.html


Showdown between the Realists and the Neoconservatives:
Pragmatism vs Batshit Crazy


"FOR the decade since its founding by the neoconservative thinker Irving Kristol, The National Interest has been a central forum for the most influential conservative foreign policy thinkers of all stripes to hash out their differences. It launched ideas that entered the public policy vernacular, like "the end of history," "the West and the rest," and "geo-economics," and for the last six months it has played host to a closely watched intramural conservative debate over the wisdom of the war in Iraq.

Now, however, a philosophical disagreement within its editorial board has put its future in turmoil. On Friday, 10 well-known board members, including the conservatives Midge Decter, Samuel P. Huntington and Francis Fukuyama, announced their resignations, saying they disagreed with the narrowly realist foreign policy of its new owner, the Nixon Center.

At issue is the perspective laid out in the most recent issue by Robert F. Ellsworth, vice chairman of the Nixon Center, a "realist" foreign policy research group that acquired sole control of the journal last year, and Dimitri K. Simes, president of the center and co-publisher of the journal. In an editorial headlined "Realism's Shining Morality," they wrote: "Overzealousness in the cause of democracy (along with a corresponding underestimation of the costs and dangers) has led to a dangerous overstretch in Iraq," arguing that United States interests may sometimes require cooperation with undemocratic regimes."

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"Upon receiving the letter, the publishers of the journal sent their own letter dissolving the advisory board, which had two remaining members, the neoconservative columnists Charles Krauthammer and Daniel Pipes. "I think this group, frankly, belongs to the past, and we wanted to have some changes," said Mr. Simes, adding that there was no plan to narrow the range of contributors."



Jeez. Did you know Eliot Cohen is a neocon? That explains how he's on CNN all the time as "Clinton Advisor"--they try to sneak him in as a liberal!

[Nickster]

1. Good one down, millions more to go. eom

[applegrove]

2. Ha ha ha ha ha!

[KoKo]

3. And so it goes on ...the Elitist Ivory Tower Thinkers far above the rest

of us out here who have to deal with their policies which they decide from their distant lives where they just consort with their "own kind."

And, this goes for most of our Senate and House members and our "Elite Media" who have nothing in common with the average American except to use and manipulate us.

Disgusting, and particularly about Eliot Cohen. Now that they are identifying themselves we at least know more of who our "enemies" are.
These are the people we can never trust again because they abused the trust of all of us with their policies on Invading Iraq and who knows what else. "Doctrine of Pre-emptive Strike" being the worst.

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