> May 16, 2004
>
> The Hawks Loudly Express Their Second Thoughts
>
> By JOHN TIERNEY
>
> WASHINGTON — Not long ago, the word "triumphalist" was being applied to the
> neoconservatives and other intellectuals who championed the war in Iraq. Now
> the buzzwords are "depressed," "angst-ridden" and "going wobbly." ...
> [snip]
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/weekinreview/16tier.html>
>
For me, the oddest part of this article was this paragraph:
> These second thoughts seem a bit late to some non-conservative hawks
> like Kenneth M. Pollack and Fareed Zakaria. Although Mr. Pollack, a
> senior fellow at the Saban Center of the Brookings Institution, wrote
> an influential book urging war against Iraq, he called the
> administration's plan ill-conceived before the war began. Mr. Zakaria,
> the editor of Newsweek International, turned on the administration
> shortly after the occupation began.
Zakaria isn't as conservative as he was when he was a mover-and-shaker in the Party of the Right, but he's certainly conservative. Perhaps Tierney is just sloppy, but one can be a conservative without drinking the neo-con Kool-Aid.
--tim francis-wright