The Neocons Are Losing It

"Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it," says Jim Lobe, reporting on "the tentative conclusion of a number of political analysts following Monday’s first nationally televised debate of the party’s declared Republican candidates — none of whom defended the current U.S. engagement in Libya, while several suggested it was time to pare down Washington’s global military engagements, including in Afghanistan" — Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy.

"While the neocons are hoping 'American leadership' exercised in Libya (and possibly Syria) will co-opt the Arab Spring," writes Justin Raimondo, "what they really fear is an American Spring" — The American Spring. "And just as they never foresaw the Arab awakening and the overthrow of US-supported dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, so they are blind to the coming American awakening – a massive grassroots rebellion against the political status quo right here in this country."