A tragedy of errors: the neoconservatives' war has proved a disaster. No wonder they're running for cover.(End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror)(Book Review)
Nation, The, February, 2004 by Lind, Michael
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror.
By David Frum and Richard Perle. Random House. 284 pp. $25.95.
About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving Kristol. We called it neoconservative bingo. The idea was that the cliches of neoconservative discourse would be arranged in various combinations on bingo cards: "The World's Only Superpower"; "The New Class"; "The China Threat"; "Decadent Europe"; "Against the UN"; "The Adversary Culture"; "The Global Democratic Revolution"; "Down With the Appeasers!"; "Be Firm Like Churchill." The free space in the center of the bingo card would be "The Palestinian People Do Not Exist" (nowadays it would be "No Palestinian State" or "All Palestinians Are...
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