"The radical inclination, the intellectual banality and the overweening certainty all derive from what Heilbrunn accurately describes as 'a highly selective and moralistic view of history as a drama of salvation and idolatry.' The point is a crucial one. For neoconservatives, the past begins and ends with the period 1938 to 1945. This is history as tendentious parable in which appeasement always invites aggression; 'isolationism' paves the way for holocaust; and vigorous leadership (neoconservatives strongly favoring Winston Churchill over Franklin Delano Roosevelt) ensures the ultimate triumph of freedom, albeit too late to save the millions carted off to the Nazi death camps."
Andrew J. Bacevich reviews Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons in the Los Angeles Times.
As does David Greenberg in The American Prospect.
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