. . . "As a paid-up member of the Neoconservative mafia and a committed Zionist whose loyalties are as much to the Israeli state as to the USA, Feith was precisely the sort of person who should have been kept well away from policy making on US posture in the Middle East.Neoconservative thought was much influenced by Leo Strauss who came to the USA as a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1937." .