“Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country.”

— Patrick Buchanan

Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq (eds. Liam O'Huallachain and J. Forrest Sharpe, 2005)
2000s

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