Are both readings equally valid? Students who delve deeper into Kirk’s life and work will find an answer. While he never openly dissented from the Cold War, Kirk left little doubt about his feelings toward more recent foreign-policy developments, saying at the time of the first Gulf War, “Not seldom has it seemed as if some eminent neoconservatives mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of the United States.”
[he could write for Counterpunch!]