American Empire: Michael Lind does a stunning job of explaining how the neocons are now running American foreign policy. In Wednesday's Salonhe talks about how neoconservatism's roots are found not in conservatism but in the far left. Gone is the conservative realism of the past, in with the new idealistic conservatism. This is a chilling story of how a few people were able to hijack a politcal party and the entire world with their radical ideas. There has to be some way to take the party back from these johnny-come-latelies.