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What the neocons got right

Neoconservatives may have exited the Bush administration with their tails between their legs, but their positions on a number of issues concerning the Middle East deserve a second look.   BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

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Steven A. Cook
By , a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Neoconservatives may have exited the Bush administration with their tails between their legs, but their positions on a number of issues concerning the Middle East deserve a second look.

Neoconservatives may have exited the Bush administration with their tails between their legs, but their positions on a number of issues concerning the Middle East deserve a second look.

 

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

Steven A. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book is False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East. Twitter: @stevenacook

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