Neoliberal, meet neocon: Two fine specimens of the respective breeds are mated in this week’s New York Times Book Review, as Christopher Caldwell (neocon) reviews a new book by Ian Buruma on the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and Dutch Islamism. Said the neoliberal: The “West” (i.e., European Europeans and American Americans, if you see what he means) has perhaps been too lenient with the Muslim interlopers. Said the neocon: The West has been completely too lenient with the Muslims, who might, at any moment, become a “billion enemies.” So stands the range of debate within the Book Review’s pages this week: Islam as troublesome Other vs. Islam as, well, the Borg. Conclusion: Freedom is just another word for the “decadence” of a “West” that refuses to fight the enemy within its walls. And thus spake the neo-Goebbels of allegedly respectable political opinon.