Jonah Goldberg | Jan 06, 2016
In interviews and on the stump, Sen. Ted Cruz likes to attack President Obama, Hillary Clinton and "some of the more aggressive Washington neocons" for their support of regime change in the Middle East. Every time we topple a dictator, Cruz argues, we end up helping terrorists or extremists. He has a point. But what interests me is his use of the word "neocon." What does he really mean?
Some see dark intentions. "He knows that the term in the usual far-left and far-right parlance means warmonger, if not warmongering Jewish advisers, so it is not something he should've done," former George W. Bush advisor Elliott Abrams told National Review. Another former Bush adviser calls the term "a dog whistle." I think that's all a bit overblown. Cruz is just trying to criticize his opponent Marco Rubio, who supported regime change in Libya. There's little daylight between the two presidential contenders on foreign policy, and this gives Cruz an opening for attack.
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My Take - Interesting points but meaningless. The history is worth reading though. I've been very impressed with Jonah Goldberg since reading Liberal Fascism, but he's now become a somewhat regular member of the Fox TV class, all of which are a bit infected with the Will/Krauthammer Cabal Symdrome (WKCS) - conservatism with a touch of leftism. Can't offend those lefties too much you know! Otherwise how can anyone justify the presence of Juan Williams. He's even worse that Bob Beckel since unlike Beckel he's a master of logical fallacies, moral equivilants and misdirection. All designed to lead everyone to inaccurate conclusions. And since he's a master of this he must know what he's doing and doing it deliberately. Show me the last time anyone of them called him on it on The Five. They may disagree, but he not called on his fallacious reasoning or facts.
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