Alcove 1. Great Timothy Noah review of Jacob Heilbrunn's book on the neoconservatives, They Knew They Were Right:

...As late as 1944, the founding-neocon-to-be, Irving Kristol, publicly dismissed the “near hysterical insistence upon the pressing military danger,” Jacob Heilbrunn reports in his new book, “They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons.” While the Nazis herded Jews into the gas chambers, Kristol, then a 24-year-old Trotskyist, held fast to his conviction that the Allies were no different from the Axis in their imperialism. Kristol took this view because he was “indulging in an abstract crusade for a better world.”

Sound familiar? . . .

Posted by Laura at January 12, 2008 03:45 PM