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We may need to dust off the trophy (named by longtime American Spectator correspondent Tom Bethell) for presentation to the Weekly Standard’s editor who, in a column about the Egypt crisis, elbowed Charles Krauthammer and dissed Glenn Beck in such a way as to merit this headline from the Politico:

Kristol rebukes ‘hysterical’ Beck,
conservatives on Egypt
 

My friend Professor Donald Douglas has written hopefully of “Egypt’s Neoconservative Moment,” but there apparently is a split among the neocons. My own Burkean view is that Egypt’s future seems more likely to be rather paleo, if you catch my drift.

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Middle East

About the Author

Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/02/05/bill-kristol-seeks-nomination

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