Saturday, May 18, 2013

Bill Kristol's Empire of Death

By Daniel McAdams

Non-interventionists can learn a great deal by observing when the differing factions of the neo-conservative enterprise take to exposing each other. 

Take the Left-neocon New Republic, a magazine that hemorrhages money at such a rate that it literally had a hard time being given away until Facebook kid mega-millionaire Chris Hughes decided to snatch it up with pocket change as a child's toy. Hughes was a deep-pockets campaign supporter of the hyper-interventionist Obama, and in his new "serious" publishing toy no-doubt sees endless opportunities to feature "serious" writers on the faux Left to explain to us barbarians how wonderful the next deadly "humanitarian intervention" is turning out to be.

Nevertheless, the New Republic today features an enormously instructive graphic explaining to its readers "Bill Kristol's Galactic Empire." In this colorful chart we see the endless projects and think tanks and publications and "emergency committees" and "liberation committees" that count Bill Kristol as either a very influential member or leader. No doubt each of these comes with a healthy paycheck for Kristol. 

Never mind that every position he has advocated has turned out to be a disaster for the United States. Never mind that nearly every one of hispredictions has turned out to be outrageously and even hilariously incorrect. Being a neo-conservative means never being wrong, no matter how wrong you are.
What do Bill Kristol's enterprises all have in common? 

Read the rest here.

1 comment:

  1. Bill Kristol, being right about anything since... never.

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