Maybe, maybe not, although perhaps the fact that Rupert Murdoch and the neoconservative right he represents purport to be philosemitic these days might tip the balance of probabilities into the "not" camp.
Many people fear that he is a warmonger at worst, at best a prickly individual with neoconservative tendencies who will do little to mend fences with the world.
But it's entirely accurate to count neoconservative policy analyses as among the important causes of the war, to point out that the pro-Israeli sympathies of Jewish neoconservatives played a role in these analyses, and to note the support of the Israeli government and public for the invasion.
Well, British officials say that Mr Cameron thinks the neoconservative blunder was to imagine that democracy can be dropped from a plane at 40,000 feet, and equates to holding elections.The prime minister admitted to being "particularly keen" on being among the first foreign leaders to visit Egypt after the departure of Mr Mubarak.
A confident technocrat, he has reassured Europeans who were unnerved by his neoconservative predecessor's political baggage and lack of direction.
His critics have dubbed him a "neoconservative with a French passport".The rise of Mr Sarkozy coincides with a growing determination in America to defuse global anti-Americanism.
It takes a great many to destroy a great movement and the right has many lambs it can sacrifice.An already-common angle has been to blame the neoconservative movement for hoisting an unpopular war on the party.
(Always wary of the neoconservative label that Kristol embraced with such enthusiasm, Mr Bell described himself as a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics and a conservative in culture").
Jim Woolsey, a former head of the CIA and a borderline neoconservative, notes that developing biofuels is in the national interest, since it is high time America weaned itself off Saudi oil and thus stopped funding fanatical Wahhabism.Unfortunately for Mr Bush's political fortunes, a biofuels revolution will not happen in time to ease America's current pain at the pump.
A print in his living room showed a boy in flight on a strange bird: "That's little Dickie Neuhaus, riding the Holy Spirit," he told a friend.His critics lamented that this man, so bullishly authoritarian and neoconservative, had once been quite different.
Two years ago, in "Dangerous Nation", Mr Kristol's fellow neoconservative, Robert Kagan, also acknowledged the aggressive side of American behaviour.Now Walter Nugent, of Notre Dame University, has produced a comprehensive history of how the thrust of empire shaped American history.
