Are Neocons Getting Ready to Ally With Hillary Clinton?

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WASHINGTON — AFTER nearly a decade in the political wilderness, the neoconservative movement is back, using the turmoil in Iraq and Ukraine to claim that it is President Obama, not the movement’s interventionist foreign policy that dominated early George W. Bush-era Washington, that bears responsibility for the current round of global crises.

Even as they castigate Mr. Obama, the neocons may be preparing a more brazen feat: aligning themselves with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her nascent presidential campaign, in a bid to return to the driver’s seat of American foreign policy.

To be sure, the careers and reputations of the older generation of neocons — Paul D. Wolfowitz, L. Paul Bremer III, Douglas J. Feith, Richard N. Perle — are permanently buried in the sands of Iraq. And not all of them are eager to switch parties: In April, William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, said that as president Mrs. Clinton would “be a dutiful chaperone of further American decline.”

But others appear to envisage a different direction — one that might allow them to restore the neocon brand, at a time when their erstwhile home in the Republican Party is turning away from its traditional interventionist foreign policy.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1

[RufusTFirefly]

1. Seems like they were meant for each other n/t

[TwilightGardener]

2. Neocons win either way--R or D. I'll just be sitting 2016 out.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Hawks of a feather....

[Thinkingabout]

4. Maybe the ideals of the neocons has been proven wrong and need to change their

Direction. The GOP has lost both of the last two elections so the neocons bet on the GOP and lost so probably time to change their target. So far Hillary looks like a good bet, ergo they are trying to sail on her wings.