https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2011/09/02/obama-pursues-the-bush-foreign-policy-or-we-are-all-neo-cons-now/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:07:36 -0400<![CDATA[Recently, some of our most able pundits have been arguing that neoconservatism is dead. As usual, The Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart leads the pack. He could not have stated his case more clearly than here: “the ideology that 9/11 made famous &#8212; neoconservatism &#8212; has died.” Beinart is certain of this. His evidence? Al-Qaeda is finished; not only Osama bin Laden is dead, but now his second in command, Abd al-Rahman, has been killed by the U.S. No longer is jihadism a major threat, “a threat on par with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union,” he argues. It is “sliding into irrelevance,” leaving the U.S. with quite a different challenge &#8212; that of China’s authoritarian capitalism. What killed al-Qaeda, he says, is “exactly the narrow targeted policies that neoconservatives derided.”]]>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:03:09 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2011/09/02/obama-pursues-the-bush-foreign-policy-or-we-are-all-neo-cons-now-n183902