John Edwards said last night that the Kyl-Lieberman amendment to the 2008 Defense appropriations bill expressing the sense of the Senate that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards should be designated a terrorist organization was written "in the language of the neocons." What does that mean? Kathryn J. Lopez says the "language of the neocons" must be Yiddish. I'm not certain about that, however. Most neoconservatives speak and write in standard American English. Still, today the seeds of neoconservative thinking can be seen sprouting in Europe, where those ideas may be expressed in Portuguese, Spanish, and even French. One thing's for sure: There's no way the language of the neocons is Esperanto.