| In his zeal to equate this with neoconservatism, Desch distorts the following points. |
| Neocons came in for a lot of criticism during the Iraq war, but neoconservatism was primarily a domestic policy movement. |
| It is a conservative viewpoint in the true sense, which makes it the antithesis of contemporary neoconservatism and neoliberalism, as well as all universalist ideologies. |
| Noah's piece tends to show that neoconservatism is not the sinister conspiracy he thinks it is, not that neoconservatism is cracking up. |
| A foot soldier in the ideological wars relates what went wrong with neoconservatism. |
| Irving Kristol, sometimes called the godfather of neoconservatism, calls it not a movement but a persuasion. |
