Moreover, as the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) radical jihadists sweep through Iraq, who should appear in the mainstream media providing advice on proper US Middle East policy but the neocons who masterminded the war on Iraq that created the very conditions for the success of ISIS. Once again they are arguing for American military intervention in that country. Ignored is the fact that the neocons managed to be uncannily wrong in virtually all of their prognostications made during the run-up to the war on Iraq.