by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke

Cato Institute

06/28/04

In 2001, an America largely disinterested and uninformed about foreign affairs was convulsed by terrorism from abroad. ... This was the moment when a small, largely unknown group of neoconservatives injected itself decisively into the foreign policy process. These neoconservatives, with origins among formerly left internationalist Democrats, tend to be characterized by a Jacobin, uncompromising set of values. In retrospect, one could not know how susceptible an inexperienced president and a less informed polity would be to the policies that have brought about the risky positions in which the nation now finds itself...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp