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Neocons like the historian Robert Kagan may be connecting with Hillary Clinton to try to regain influence in foreign policy. Credit Left, Stephanie Sinclair/VII via Corbis; right, Colin McPherson/Corbis.

After nearly a decade in the political wilderness, the neoconservative movement is back, using the turmoil in Iraq and Ukraine to claim that it is President Obama, not the movement’s interventionist foreign policy that dominated early George W. Bush-era Washington, that bears responsibility for the current round of global crises.

Even as they castigate Mr. Obama, the neocons may be preparing a more brazen feat: aligning themselves with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her nascent presidential campaign, in a bid to return to the driver’s seat of American foreign policy.

To be sure, the careers and reputations of the older generation of neocons — Paul D.…  Seguir leyendo »

What’s your favourite fact? Come on, everyone has a favourite fact. Here’s mine: more young people supported the Vietnam War than did any other section of the American population. As the war progressed, the whole country turned against it, but those under 30 remained least likely to regard it as an error.

I have deployed this point on countless occasions — arguments about the Sixties, disputes about the political views of young people, discussions on the differences between the views of activists and the general public — but I bring it up now for a different reason. The man from whom I first learnt it (it was in one of his many books) died last week.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Clinton, is the author of 'How Bush Rules' (THE GUARDIAN, 16/11/06):

Even before the electoral repudiation of President Bush, the guardians of the Bush family trust surfaced as the presumptive executive committee of the executive branch. For years, George Bush Sr and his former national-security team have tried to rescue the president from himself - and from the clutches of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their neoconservative centurions. Earlier this year Bush Sr quietly approached a retired four-star general to inquire if he would be willing to replace Rumsfeld, but that premature coup came to naught.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Joshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/08/06):

The Post reported recently on Page One that "President Bush is facing a new and swiftly building backlash on the right over his handling of foreign affairs" ["Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy," July 19]. Judging by those quoted, the current backlash is centered among neoconservatives, until now Bush's most ardent foreign policy constituency.

A few weeks earlier, Richard Perle, one of the most respected neocons, had penned a scathing critique of Bush's Iran policy [Outlook, June 25]. I myself may have contributed to the overall impression of neocon disillusionment by decrying the administration's flaccid response to a wave of repression by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [op-ed, June 27].…  Seguir leyendo »

Por Soeren Kern. Investigador Principal para el Área de EEUU y Diálogo Transatlántico, Real Instituto Elcano (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 21/04/06):

Tema: La Casa Blanca ha hecho pública su nueva estrategia de seguridad nacional.

Resumen: La nueva edición de la “Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de los EEUU de América” (National Security Strategy of the United States of America), con fecha de marzo de 2006, explica la estrategia sobre la que se basa la política exterior norteamericana. Es la primera revisión de la doctrina de seguridad desarrollada por la Administración Bush en septiembre de 2002. La tesis central de esta nueva estrategia es que la propagación de la democracia es la mejor forma de construir un mundo mejor.…  Seguir leyendo »

Por Josep M. Colomer, profesor de investigación en Ciencia Política en el CSIC y la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (EL PAÍS, 05/04/06):

Parece que cunde algún desánimo acerca de Irak e incluso algunos supuestos neo-conservadores de Washington se dan de baja del club. Sin embargo, el Gobierno de Estados Unidos acaba de hacer pública su nueva Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional, la primera revisión en cuatro años. Hay en ella mucha autocrítica y bastante novedad. Con notable lucidez, el documento del Departamento de Estado caracteriza la estrategia exterior americana como "idealista en los fines y realista en los medios". El idealismo sigue siendo la difusión de la libertad y la democracia en el mundo.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Charles Krauthammer (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/03/06):

It was, as the hero tells it, his Road to Damascus moment. There he is, in a hall of 1,500 people he has long considered to be his allies, hearing the speaker treat the Iraq war, nearing the end of its first year, as "a virtually unqualified success." He gasps as the audience enthusiastically applauds. Aghast to discover himself in a sea of comrades so deluded by ideology as to have lost touch with reality, he decides he can no longer be one of them.

And thus did Francis Fukuyama become the world's most celebrated ex-neoconservative, a well-timed metamorphosis that has brought him a piece of the fame that he once enjoyed 15 years ago as the man who declared, a mite prematurely, that history had ended.…  Seguir leyendo »