http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/26/david-corn.php
"The neocons? aspirations ? and illusions (or delusions) ? were placed on display recently, when Thomas Donnelly, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (a.k.a. Neocon Central Command), presented a paper at a conference titled, without irony, ?Winning Iraq.? Donnelly used to be director of strategic communications at Lockheed Martin and the number two at the Project for the New American Century, a neocon outfit overseen by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, which was urging Washington to invade Iraq for years before 9/11.
With this paper, Donnelly revealed that neocons are watching the war on a cable channel that the rest of us don?t get. ?The pendulum inside Iraq is . . . swinging slowly and painfully but clearly in an American direction,? he writes. He notes that ?the insurgents have failed in their effort to attack the essential center of gravity, the will of the American people. President Bush, his administration and the American people as a whole have remained fundamentally unshaken in their commitment to complete the victory in Iraq, despite the casualties and the cost.? Yet polls show only about a third of Americans approve of Bush?s handling of the war, and in some surveys half say the war wasn?t worth it. ?The resistance has had little to show for months of violence,? Donnelly argues. ?The ?sea? of the Iraqi people is drying up for the insurgents, and the effort to spark a civil war has failed.? But the last Gallup Poll taken in Iraq found that 57 percent of the respondents want the United States to leave immediately. Hearts and minds ? as the cliché goes ? are not being won in either Iraq or the United States.
But Donnelly and stay-the-course neocons are not detached from reality only in their assessment of the ongoing situation. They are out of touch in their prescription for the future, which essentially amounts to this: Onward!"
"The neocons? aspirations ? and illusions (or delusions) ? were placed on display recently, when Thomas Donnelly, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (a.k.a. Neocon Central Command), presented a paper at a conference titled, without irony, ?Winning Iraq.? Donnelly used to be director of strategic communications at Lockheed Martin and the number two at the Project for the New American Century, a neocon outfit overseen by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, which was urging Washington to invade Iraq for years before 9/11.
With this paper, Donnelly revealed that neocons are watching the war on a cable channel that the rest of us don?t get. ?The pendulum inside Iraq is . . . swinging slowly and painfully but clearly in an American direction,? he writes. He notes that ?the insurgents have failed in their effort to attack the essential center of gravity, the will of the American people. President Bush, his administration and the American people as a whole have remained fundamentally unshaken in their commitment to complete the victory in Iraq, despite the casualties and the cost.? Yet polls show only about a third of Americans approve of Bush?s handling of the war, and in some surveys half say the war wasn?t worth it. ?The resistance has had little to show for months of violence,? Donnelly argues. ?The ?sea? of the Iraqi people is drying up for the insurgents, and the effort to spark a civil war has failed.? But the last Gallup Poll taken in Iraq found that 57 percent of the respondents want the United States to leave immediately. Hearts and minds ? as the cliché goes ? are not being won in either Iraq or the United States.
But Donnelly and stay-the-course neocons are not detached from reality only in their assessment of the ongoing situation. They are out of touch in their prescription for the future, which essentially amounts to this: Onward!"
