When Neocons attack!

What could be more entertaining -- not to mention emotionally satisfying -- than the spectacle of warmongers turning on each other?

First a little background: Back in the good ol' days, at the height of the sado-patriotic fever that enflamed the nation after 9/11, Andrew Sullivan rallied the boys to support George W. Bush’s wars as a liberation movement for fellow homosexuals in the Middle East. But the steady seepage of reality into the Neocon fantasy world finally turned Sullivan against his former ideological loyalties, as he stated in his blog:

The closer you examine it, the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right. That's the conclusion I've been forced to these last few years. And to insist that America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into. Cheney saw America as Netanyahu sees Israel: a country built for permanent war and the "tough, mean, dirty, nasty business" of waging it (with a few war crimes to keep the enemy on their toes).

But America is not Israel. America might support Israel, might have a special relationship with Israel. But America is not Israel. And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses.

This was just too much for Neocon stalwart John Podhoretz. In a venomous attack piece entitled, "The Daily Dearborn Independent Dish," he blasted the apostate Sullivan with both barrels:

Andrew Sullivan no longer is interested in winning in Iraq, in fact is probably quietly eager for a defeat there, doubtless out of a combination of a certain degree of conviction, a ravenous hunger for leftist Web traffic, and because having decided a few years ago he’d picked the wrong horse in supporting it, he finds it unbearable to imagine that the wrong horse may prove to be the right horse after all.

So he must hold the neoconservatives to blame, first, for gulling him into support — you know, we Jews are fiendishly clever, with our Svengali hypnotic powers overcoming the will of poor, weak-minded Catholic bloggers — and must now be held to account for holding views about Israel and Iraq and democracy we never held and have, in fact, been attacked by some of our oldest friends who do hold them. But of course, those attacks by our old friends aren’t real, nor are the divisions among neoconservatives real. Because we Jews are all in it together.

At least Henry Ford knew how to make a car.

Podhoretz is oh-so-cleverly insinuating that by opposing the most bloodthirsty wing of Israeli foreign policy, Sullivan is echoing the anti-Semitic Henry Ford, whose "Dearborn Journal" published the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Got that?

Sullivan has meekly walked away from this fight. Too bad, but understandable. We in the Southern Heritage movement have developed pretty thick hides after years of being called everything under the sun by the corporate media and other assorted toadies for big government. We know the price of dissent. Poor Andrew Sullivan, despite his stubborn defense of Obama, and his advocacy of same-sex marriage as a "conservative" virtue (??!!??), is now smeared as an anti-Semite.

Deee-licious!