Ex-Neocon
Dispatches from the Post 9/11 Ideological Wars
Published on 1. January 2016
264 pages
978-1-62894-197-5 (ISBN)
Description
Ex-Neocon consists of Scott McConnell's historical and polemical essays from 2001 to the present. A prominent analyst and journalist who once knew the Kristols and Podhoretzes, worked with them, admired them and identified fully with them, McConnell shows what the thinking was among neocons in those days and why he left the fold. Hd discusses the Neocons and traditional Convervative views on the wars in the Middle East, immigration policy, the US economy and other topics. The book contains an introduction by Philip Weiss, founder of Mondoweiss, the important post-Zionist website.
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prelude to War
- Why Many Arabs Hate America
- An Open Letter to David Horowitz on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- President Obama
- Untested Savior
- Obama over McCain
- Golfer in Chief
- On the Trail in Virginia
- The Neocons in Action
- Among the Neocons
- The Weekly Standard's War
- Let Me Shine Your Shoes, Sir
- They Only Look Dead
- In Search of Forever War
- Chosen People
- Thought Leader
- The Neocons Overreach on Hagel
- Israel
- A Friend's Lament
- Divided & Conquered
- The Lobby Strikes Back
- The Special Relationship with Israel: Is It Worth the Costs?
- Realists and Wise Men
- From Asset to Burden
- Tallying the Bill
- No Exit
- Normalizing Relations
- Five Years Ago Today, Walt and Mearsheimer Gave Americans the Vocabulary to Discuss a Central Issue
- Netanyahu's Machine
- I Like and Respect Israel, But It's Not America
- Why Americans Don't Understand Palestine
- Will Israel Go Fascist?
- John Kerry Walks Up to the Truth
- The Presbyterian Victory
- History
- The Good Strategist
- Peace Candidate, '68 Vintage
- Algeria, the Model
- Carter at Camp David: Triumph and Failure
- Why I Owed Gore Vidal an Apology
- Russia, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
- NATO's Wrong Turn
- Washington Puzzled as Putin Doesn't Back Down
- The American Dilemma
- Ferguson Is Not Palestine
- Abandoned by the Left
- The American Century Is Over
- Heather Mac Donald's Inconvenient Facts
- Bring Us Your Poor
- Not So Huddled Masses: Multiculturalism and Foreign Policy
- Obama's Amnesty-Inequality Trap
- Ten Years After
- David Brooks's Dilemma (and Ours)
- Ten Years in the Right
- The Coming Love Affair with Iran
- Israel and the Saudis, United in Jealousy
- The U.S.-Israel Politics Gap
- How Obama Can Stop Netanyahu's Iran War
- How the Iran Deal Serves America
- Netanyahu's Lobby vs. the World
- The Great Replacement
- Christopher Caldwell's 'Reflections'
- Not Your Father's National Front
- Sources
- Index
