Quotable: Michael Zuckerman on neo-cons
"In French slang, the word con means jackass or imbecilic wuss. So when the néo-cons--the néo-cons as the French read the term--went ahead with the ill-considered invasion and imperialist occupation of Iraq, the French thought that this was just the sort of thing that néo-cons--incompetent fools, milksop morons--would do."
--Michael Zuckerman, "American Conservatism in Historical Perspective"