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The last neocon standing?

Newsweek profiles White House Middle East adviser Elliot Abrams. “Bush has enormous regard for him,” says a senior administration official who would not speak about their relationship on the record. “One, because he knows Elliott is keeper of the flame. And also, he’s the only one who doesn’t draw any attention to himself.” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on the neocon movement: “Every intellectual group, every political group, goes through a period of mini crackup and reassembles in slightly different ways.”

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