Griper Blade: Onward to Iran!

The definition of a neocon used to be a 'neo-conservative' who believes in the transformative power of democracy, envisions a democratic world, and has an unquestioning faith in the power of the US military to bring about this transformation. Naive visionaries who believe that everyone wants to live in a democracy and only governments oppose it. Throwing a gigantic monkeywrench into this equation is the fact that antidemocratic governments are people and those people have no interest in democracy. Everyone wants to be free follow their beliefs, but there's no shortage of people who value their own freedom and don't care much about anyone else's.

As I said, that used to be the definition. Today, we can define those few who still embrace the neo-conservative ideal as morons who either can't or won't learn from recent history. It's one thing to have faith in a political hypothesis before you put it to the test, it's another to watch that hypothesis fail the acid test and come to the conclusion that you're correct.

These are today's neocons. They are fewer, no wiser, and just a little bit crazier. Having watched Iraq devolve into chaos, civil war, and anarchy, they believe they're still right. Iraq isn't the problem, others interfering in Iraq is the problem. The problem isn't -- as Gen. Omar Bradley said of the Korean war -- "The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." The problem is that the war is too narrow...

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