The Dreams of Scott Paul and of the American Liberals

By Con George-Kotzabasis

 

Neoconservatives versus Liberals is a misnomer. Realists versus Dreamers would be more apt. The U.S. is confronting a determined implacable enemy in Iraq and in the Middle East over whom only military might can succeed followed by the transformation of the region.

 

Scott Paul considers this neocon idea as bankrupt, since to him there is ample “evidence to the contrary”. But he does not spell out the content of this “evidence” precisely because he knows that the latter is an abstraction and does not exist. The historical evidence is that the engagement with an irreconcilable foe can only be decided on the field of battle. But the American liberals, like Scott Paul, are still to learn this elementary lesson of history or at least to have flunked it. And the neocons, to the future regret and chagrin of the liberals, will be found to have been on the side history.

 

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