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1:09 PM, Jan 28, 2009 • By JONATHAN V. LAST
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Reading through the clippings on Iceland I came across a London Times piece on David Oddsson, the former Icelandic prime minister who is now chairman of the central bank. Oddsson did more than his share to contribute to Iceland's economic catastrophe and is now the most hated man in the country. So here's how the Times's Roger Boyes describes him:

He ignored them for whatever reason -- perhaps it was an ideological blindness because he ranks as the very last neocon in Europe, the Nordic Margaret Thatcher -- perhaps it was merely a matter of personal vanity.

Oddsson believes in modified free markets -- his nearest American economic analogue would be Bill Clinton -- and has no serious (or even unserious) foreign policy record from his time as prime minister. So what makes him a "neocon," exactly?

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