Neocons In Glass Houses

Conor Friedersdorf is irritated by Jennifer Rubin's assertion that the Iraq withdrawal is strengthening Iran. Well duh:

The U.S. was always going to leave Iraq eventually, and Iran was always going to exert more influence on the region as a result. What writers like Rubin fail to understand is that, if the war you advocate requires for its success the indefinite deployment of U.S. troops, you've advocated a failed war. The American people have never and will never agree to a perpetual war of choice that costs billions of dollars each year and results in the ongoing death of American troops — especially if its proponents suggest before it begins that it will be a cakewalk costing $50 to $60 billion. That's hardly a difficult lesson, but neoconservatives still haven't learned it.

I suspect they may have internalized Israel's forever war as America's. No daylight, remember? No "greater ally", remember? And where war is concerned, the GOP establishment sees no fiscal limits at all.