Neo-Con Artists: Tired and Shagged Out Following a Prolonged Squawk

William Kristol and Bob Kagan's Project for a New American Century was an unfailing coin-op card shoe for the POTUS cabal's "War on Terror" house of cards. Apparently, they stopped having anything relevant (or believable) to say about the war they advocated after 2005, though:

PNAC Mideast/Iraq Articles
PNAC Global Issues

Think that was also when the cash infusions dried up? I'm going to go with "no." Fattest welfare teat in human history, that (see "Pinching Pennies," below).

It gets better: PNAC hasn't published a Mideast article from Kristol's Weekly Standard agit-prop rag in 2 years, either. And he owns it.

Putting the "What's New" back in New Conservative, baby. In their own words.

My favorite neo-con assessment, from December's BBC article:

"Neo-conservatism has gone for a generation, if in fact it ever returns," says one of the movement's critics, David Rothkopf, currently at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, and a former official in the Clinton administration.

"Their signal enterprise was the invasion of Iraq and their failure to produce results is clear. Precisely the opposite has happened," he says.

"The US use of force has been seen as doing wrong and as inflaming a region that has been less than susceptible to democracy.

"Their plan has fallen on hard times. There were flaws in the conception and horrendously bad execution. The neo-cons have been undone by their own ideas and the incompetence of the Bush administration.

"George Bush is about the last neo-conservative standing, Cheney as well, maybe. Bush is not an analytical person, so he just adopted the neo-cons' philosophy.

"It fitted into his Manichean, his black and white view of the world. After all, he gave up his dissolute youth and was born again as a new man, so it appealed to his character."

Here's to the death of the new conservative American century;
98 years early;
2 years too long.