tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post6761635844616461384..comments2024-02-13T05:40:02.459-06:00Comments on Alternative Tulsa: Five Years After the Invasion, Columnist Brooks Clams Up About Iraq AnniversaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-460674773445742325.post-64993753324759714312008-03-26T13:57:00.000-06:002008-03-26T13:57:00.000-06:00"In 1997, Brooks wrote an influential article call..."In 1997, Brooks wrote an influential article called 'A Return to National Greatness,' for The Weekly Standard... 'National Greatness' is what results when unacknowledged feelings of sexual inadequacy manifest themselves as a theory of foreign policy. The ostensible theory is that the United States, at the time, no longer had the sense of large, unifying national purpose that it had during the days of the western expansion, the Cold War, and the space program. The remedy was for the government to create 'a spirit of confidence and vigor that can then spill across the life of the nation.'<BR/><BR/>"Those behind this movement, including Weekly Standard editor and founder William Kristol...were the primary intellectual force behind the Iraq War, which has proven the theory to be a smashing success."<BR/><BR/>- from <A HREF="http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=David_Brooks" REL="nofollow">David Brooks - Dickipedia</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com