Letters to the Editor
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@damaged goods
You hit it. It doesn't matter who is in power. Examine the career patterns of any given neo-con over the past ten-twenty years; there are established holding-areas on the other side of the revolving door where they can go to ground when a Dem administration is in office. Think tanks, fellowships, university departments and right-wind endowed chairs, NDU and so forth.
Obviously, they don't go away. They continue to speak, to organize, to publish and to program.
In some ways, they're more dangerous then because they have more time to plan, solicit support in the defense 'periphery', recruit, publish revisionist accounts that paper over everything that went wrong on their 'watch' (and more stab-in-the-back nonsense), disseminate the half-baked theories and frameworks, which will then be taken up, diluted and fragmented, and then popularized for rhetorical leverage later by Fred Hiatt, David Brooks, Robert Kaplan and other 'popular' writers ... all without having to account for anything contemporary that they've been in charge of.