Mixed Nuts

Yglesias says that the neocons may not be as triumphant as we thought since John Bolton has been eighty-sixed. I’m not so sure. Bolton, for all of his insane ramblings, wasn’t really a neocon. He was Jesse Helms’s boy — reflexively anti-international, confrontational and crude. He’s more of a paranoid John Bircher than a starry-eyed neocon intellectual and while it’s true that their interest in unilateralism and American hegemony intersect, they really come from different schools. Bolton was a loose cannon. I’m not surprised the neos would want to see him gone.