Not if Poddy has his way – but neocons are obviously distraught. What to do? Lavish praise on the emperor! “Bush’s resolve and seriousness of purpose” can overcome all reality!
Nietzsche called it “the will to power,” and the Epistle of Saint John (2:16) calls it “superbia vitae,” but, to the power-lustful neocon ideologue, war, violence, and lies can overcome the most resistant of realities.
Poddy has long abandoned reality: he was once convinced that Jackie Kennedy would swoon over him.
We can reject his self-absorption with the same contempt that Jackie did: “Why Mr. Podhoretz, just who do you think you are?” For this fan of Big Brother, “ignorance is strength” is not enough. Now, “realism is defeatism.” We should hardly conduct World War IV merely in order to salvage Mr. Podhoretz’s limitless ego.
He might love Big Brother, but he loves himself even more.