Looks like the AEI NeoConArtists are being pushed into the background. Don't celebrate yetm though. Their not done...in fact, they're pushing harder than ever on attacking Korea, Iran, anyone....
What idiot allowed these true conartists to hijack the American system of government, anyway?
"Frankly, the administration has retreated even from a passive push for democracy," said Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Washington is now largely silent about actions taken by Middle East regimes to suppress political opposition....
The credibility problem is complicated by Bush's use of the democracy theme in speeches. Before the U.N. General Assembly, he portrayed the United States as a friend of freedom but cited autocratic regimes, including Saudi Arabia, as reformers. "People in the region know about the Saudi government. They're not naive," said Thomas Carothers, head of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The perception of hypocrisy is extremely high," he said" here
