Since the neoconservatives began to emerge as a political force in the mid-to-late 1970s, they have followed a consistent strategy of targeting the information flows inside the United States, paying particular attention to controlling the nation’s intelligence analysts and purging independent thinking from the U.S. news media.

Some grassroots resistance emerged to challenge these faux realities, but it didn’t gain much traction on the national level until Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in late summer 2005 and Bush couldn’t spin his administration’s incompetent response.

The National Intelligence Estimate knocked the wind out of the neocons’ hope for a military confrontation with Iran before the end of Bush’s term. [See Consortiumnews.com's "A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes."]

So, the neocons may have been staggered a few times in recent months, but it would be premature to count them out.
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