WWFDRD?

In a review of John Podhoretz's "Can She Be Stopped?" that appeared in the June 19th issue of National Review, R. Emmett Tyrrell points out the inaccurate manner in which the term "neocon" is commonly used these days and suggests a more appropriate, if much more difficult for liberals to swallow, alternative:

Podhoretz is the son of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, two brilliant New York intellectuals who were among the real neoconservatives--that is to say, the small band of liberal Democrats who broke with liberalism when it went off into its narcissistic fantasy world in the early 1970s. To be a true neoconservative one has to be at least in one's sixties--and a little embarrassed about the good old days. That the younger hawkish foreign-policy advocates are now called neoconservatives by the media is another example of the sloppy thought that pervades the Kultursmog. More accurately these are conservatives with a Rooseveltian-- not Wilsonian--agenda. They would use far more force than President Woodrow Wilson in spreading Western value-- and they would test the limits of the Constitution, as FDR did in confronting Nazism.

Tyrrell's commentary raises a question for the Left to ponder in their criticism of just about every aspect of the Bush administration's conduct of the war: if faced with same existential threat to civilization from radical Islamists, what would FDR do?