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If the neocons didn't exist, it would have been necessary to invent them.
The throne needs the altar. In our 'secular', 'modern' age, old fashioned religious justifications for the crown and it's crusades just won't wash. Hence the modern think tank. Their role to generate intellectual justifications for the exercise of power at home and abroad.
The AEI / PPI movement that Raimondo detects is just a changing of the guard.