Hawkishness and neoconservatism are not the same thing

Published July 1, 2011 4:00am ET



Andrew McCarthy has a strong post over at National Review’s Corner responding to the absurd attempt by neoconservatives to portray those who oppose intervention in Libya as isolationists.

“Like most conservatives opposed to our Libya intervention, I’ve been asked a lot lately how it feels to be aligned with a hard Leftist like Dennis Kucinich,” McCarthy writes. “It feels better, I think, than I if I found myself on the same side as al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

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