Kirk on Tel Aviv
[from further down that American Conservative article on how today’s
campus right has turned away from the ideas of the likes of Russell
Kirk - which include…]
Are both readings equally valid? Students who delve deeper into
Kirk’s life and work will find an answer. While he never openly
dissented from the Cold War, Kirk left little doubt about his
feelings toward more recent foreign-policy developments, saying at
the time of the first Gulf War, “Not seldom has it seemed as if some
eminent neoconservatives mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of the
United States.”
[he could write for Counterpunch!]