May 21, 2010 11:10AM 

# A Neocon’s ‘Catastrophe’ 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon comes to the United States and registers his objection to the recently enacted law in Arizona during a press conference and in a few sentences in an address to Congress.

Bill Bennett calls Calderon’s actions a “[catastrophe](http://article.nationalreview.com/434592/the-presidents-and-the-arizona-law/william-j-bennett-brseth-leibsohn).”

Neoconservatives like Bennett do not see the [drug war](http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war) and the [Iraq war](http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-03-13-iraq-casualties_N.htm) policies as catastrophes.

Enough said.

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