November/December 2003, Volume 59, No. 6, pp. 62-71
Neocons: the men behind the curtain By Khurram Husain
Undeterred by their encounters with reality, the strategists who pushed for war in Iraq believed then, and still believe, that their moment has come.
Reading the calls to war with Iraq, one was reminded of Cato the Elder, who spent his retirement urging the Roman generals to remove the thorn of Carthage permanently from Rome's side so it could never again defy Roman might. http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/nd03/nd03husain.html