A week later...

And the Globe is already signaling the all-clear for the admin’s neocons.
That was quick.
This after Peter Canellos and George Will pompously assured the masses that no matter who wins the election Messr’s Feith, Wolfowitz and Libby will be burnishing their resumes come November 3rd.
Try telling that to Michael Ledeen, who (according to Jeet Heer and Dave Wagner) is whispering in karl Rove’s ear pushing for the deposition of the Mullah’s in Iran.
Clearly Mr. Ledeen fears no purge of the neocon tendency within the Bush Admin…”on to Tehran” seems to be his current mantra not “abandon ship”.
Well you know how it is with these guys, they were all once stalwart new leftists who happily turned in their Jesus robes and sandals for a laurel crown and a toga patterned on the American Flag once Ronald Reagan made the scene.
The neocons are a product of a famously self conscious, self worshipping, selfish, and shameless generation.
Therefore these leaps from left to right with no intervening angst or reflection are to be expected.
These guys are always ardently right about everything no matter how total the revision in their views.
The real problem with the neocons isn’t their truculence or smug self satisfaction that whole generation as I said, is sodden with it.
No….there is a inherent and seldom discussed contradiction within their ideology. On the one hand they preach a muscular gospel of “global democratic revolution” one to be ignited and carried through no matter what.
They are hung up on a very narrow and rhetorical definition of democracy the way the SDS and the Weathermen were once obsessed with “peace” and all the violent ways paths to that end.
Yet for all their democratic posturing, the neocons do have an subconscious belief that democracy has entered its early senescence here in America.
These guys have no real faith in democracy in America as our republic has entered a doddering old age and is in desperate need of sharp minds to guide this faltering nation along to a right and glorious end.
Why else would such allegedly smart people trifle with a dope like George Bush if they didn’t truly believe that his corrupt and cowardly self was the best the electorate had to offer?
These selfsame sharp minds are profoundly contemptuous of tradition, law, accepted practice, the congress and the like…what they revere though is pure ideology and means to force all and sundry to conform with its dictates.
This is also why they are all so obsessed with secrecy…they wanna hush up Uncle Sam’s alleged senility before the rest of us catch wise and demand a second opinion from a real M.D. and not some penitent ex-marxist scholar.
And so the Michael Ledeen’s of this world go on poking and prodding…talking up an easy invasion of Iraq, fantasizing about a democratic Iran…all very easy when you have no scruples to speak off and a history of loud truculent fanaticism be it “peace now!” or “on to Damascus!”

Sick
Demented
Typical…