MORE ON THE BAGGER/NEO-CON RIFT

(h/t Quiddity at uggabugga)

David Frum reviews Angelo Codevilla’s American Spectator essay, “The Ruling Class,” an essay that Fats Limbaugh praised for several days and tried to incorporate into his shtick.   Frum does a good job laying out Codevilla's arguments and finds another rift between the Baggers and the Neo-Cons:

Because our Ruling Class deems unsophisticated the American people’s perennial preference for decisive military action or none, its default solution to international threats has been to commit blood and treasure to long-term, twilight efforts to reform the world’s Vietnams, Somalias, Iraqs and Afghanistans, believing that changing hearts and minds is the prerequisite of peace, and that it knows how to change them. The apparently endless series of wars in which our Ruling Class has embroiled America, wars that have achieved nothing worthwhile at great cost in blood and treasure has contributed to defining it, and to discrediting it – but not in its own eyes. (p. 23)