Gancarski’s reaction to the rejection of his piece was to fly into a rage. It is the mark of a truly unbalanced
personality, however, that his anger seems to have pushed him into the abyss. Like the disturbed "Eve White" in
The Three Faces of Eve, this trauma induced the creation of a new persona in the author, sprung , it seemed,
from nowhere. Suddenly, the neoconservatives Gancarski had spent each and every column abusing were seen to
have redeeming virtues:
"At least they understand the game America had to play for the foreseeable future. Attempting to create
democracy in the Middle East can’t be airily dismissed as an imperialist policy objective — not when the
security of the United States in an age of terror depends as much as it does on what goes on internally in
Islamic countries, or on maintaining stable, reliable allies in the Persian Gulf, central Asia, and other
volatile regions. Realizing that led me to an inconvenient conclusion: I had ‘outgrown’ the position that had
gotten me started writing about politics seriously in the first place."
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