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I never asked for the truth but you owe that to me:
About Jeane Kirkpatrick: have conservatives reassessed her "Dictatorships & Double Standards" essay? I thought the line on it -- particularly among neocons -- was that it represented a triumph of amorality, as Lawrence has hinted several times. On NRO, however, Mona Charen praises the seminal essay's "hard-headed common sense." Maybe it depends on what kind of conservative one is; or how smart one is; or the fact that it would be uncharitable to criticize her now that she's dead. But tastefulness has never been a particularly potent conservative motivator when it comes to attacks on deviationists, so if anyone can set me straight on what conservatism-writ-large makes of D&DS, I'd appreciate it.
--Spencer Ackerman
Kirkpatrick's distinction between pro-soviet "totalitarians" and anti-soviet "authoritarians" helped justify U.S. collusion with the reliably anti-Communist Hussein in Iraq and the proto-Qaeda Mujahadeen in Afghanistan. I think some neoconservatives see their "international democratic revolution" as a way to make up for associating with such unsavory players during the Cold War. Richard Perle argued that it was the United States' duty to overthrow Saddam, precisely because it had tacitly supported him in the past. |