Unpatriotic Conservatives?

National Review's David Frum has done us all a great service with his recent attack on Paleoconservatives, Unpatriotic Conservatives. The issue is no longer the cabal of self-proclaimed Neoconservatives in the think tanks, the Defense Department, and the White House, whose Israeli orientation is so blatant that anyone who criticizes them risks being demonized as an anti-Semite. Frum has unwittingly made an issue of National Review itself. And NR was for so long the lengthened shadow of William F. Buckley, Jr., that distaste for its line can in no way be attributed the the influence of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Frum's major target, LewRockwell.com has responded with two essays well worth looking at, Swine Before Perle , by Richard Cummings, and National Review isn't Right, by Daniel McCarthy.

I was going to post this in paleocon, but I think I shall put it in my personal journal first, as the latter has (alas, many) more readers, and the issue of Neoconservatism is of interest to all, and will be of even greater interest when the war is over and it is time to clean house in Washington.

Frank