You gotta love the cosmopolitan parochialism of New Yorkers, so smug in their Steinbergian view of the world.  Preaching the inevitability of the New American Century, the neo-cons forgot the warning of Yogi Berra, the great Yankees philosopher,  "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."   The last time Bill Kristol was on Comedy Central, he was doing victory laps.  He even went slumming and appeared on The Daily Show, taunting Jon Stewart "It's not too late to join us."  

Then the wheels came off...