This perfect storm will finally destroy the neocon project 5/11/07 The Guardian [View All]

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This perfect storm will finally destroy the neocon project
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2077320,00.html

Americans are sick of the unrepentant arrogance of this elite. But the realisation has come at a very heavy cost
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Friday May 11, 2007
The Guardian

Now and again people have found themselves in places where the course of history was dramatically changed: Paris in 1789, Petrograd in 1917, Berlin in 1989. Sometimes the feeling of momentous change is illusory. When Tony Blair won his first election 10 years ago, perfectly sane people proclaimed that "these are revolutionary times". As most of us realised long before his ignominious departure, that was just what they weren't.

And yet to visit the US at present, as I have done, is to experience an overwhelming sensation of drastic impending change. It's not merely that President Bush, to whom Blair so disastrously tethered himself, is "in office but not in power". Most Americans can't wait for him to go, Congress is beyond his control, and the Senate majority leader, Senator Harry Reid, has told him that the war in Iraq is lost - for which statement of the obvious Reid was accused of "defeatism" by the vice-president, Dick Cheney.