A couple of long articles to peruse when you're in the mood to
delve into a sophisticated foreign policy debate: First, Charles R.
Kesler, in the Claremont Review of Books, presents
one of the few critiques of
neoconservatism by someone who actually understands who the
neoconservatives are and what they believe. (Kesler is one of the
"superhawks," like TAS senior editor Angelo
Codevilla.) Second, Joshua Muravchik, in Commentary,
argues that Iraq has not discredited
neoconservatism. Muravchik engages Kesler a little bit, though
I wish he had done so more. I'll probably have more to say about
this debate as some point, but for now I just wanted to recommend
the essential background reading.
topics:
Foreign Policy, Books, Iraq, Conservatism, Neoconservatism
