January 18, 2008

Fight Makes Right

By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

Confrontation is central to the neocon movement's origins and tactics, says the author of a new book

Few terms in the American political lexicon have been as simultaneously ubiquitous and misunderstood as "neoconservative." Is it another word for a hawk on foreign policy? Does it refer to a conspiracy of cryptofascists in thrall to the esoteric teachings of the political philosopher Leo Strauss? A Jewish cabal primarily concerned for the survival of Israel? The ideology behind the war

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