The Neocons: An Illustrated Progression - washingtonpost.com »
Posted By Shana4Liberty 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsFrom exile to redemption to exile again: a history of "militaristic idealists" known as neocons.
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UnusualSuspect10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Beau789010 months, 3 weeks ago
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I suspect there may be a glitch that causes that to happen when someone changes their vote on your comment. (I've just run a little experiment on yours by doing that.)
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Or, I notice that one of those who rated UnusualSuspect's comment positive is Tom Drapeau...that might have something to do with it... ;-) -
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Engnr10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right".
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By definition George Bush was never a neoconservative.
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PalestinianTruth10 months, 3 weeks ago
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It seems like neoconservatism is a more fascist violent form of messianic trotkyism that is driven by the mostly by the neoconservatives strong but discreet sympathies towards zionism. Because if you notice, the Neocons focus is in the Middle East and not the other countries like Russia or China. Neoconservatives only though like to mention the U.S's rivalry between those 2 countries as a way to curry favor with more traditional conservative war hawks ( like Dick Cheney and Robert Gates) so they can keep their real cause of dominating the Middle East at the behest of Israel, moving. Also the main doctrine of the Necons is "A Clean Break" which focuses on goal of making sure that Israel is the dominant power in Middle East and that all the arab countries and iran are weaken to the point that they are just subservient clients to israel. Many of the neocons are spies for israel and they act as faciliatators to israel so they can give secret intellegience to israel about what goes on internally in the u.S. They also steal milatary technology secrets so they don't have to pay for the R costs and then sell these technologies to CHina and Russia as wells as other countries. If you don't me believe just read this article by former CiA analyst Phillip Giraldi and this report from Fox News.
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/28/fox-new-...
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BB6410 months, 3 weeks ago
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You are so right. I am a spy for the, what's the name of the Israeli CIA again? Yea right.
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If you really want to know why we Americans prefer Israel to well, most Muslims it has to do with terror. I've never seen videos from Israel where children are taught how and why to kill. I've never heard the Israeli government publicly saying they want to kill all of the Palestinians. I've never seen battle plans where the IDF purposely targeted schools or residents just to increase body counts. I've never seen the IDF hide behind the skirts of mothers and children. I have seen all of these from Palestinians and their allies. I've found most unworthy to even be considered cowards, they've far lower than that. Planting 2 sets of bombs. The first to take out the soft targets. Mainly women and children. The second to kill rescue workers. The IDF doesn't do that. That's why I don't like Hammas, PLO or what ever front group is running the territory now. If Israel is going to have to fight them for the next hundred years, I say let them take the land and expel the Palestinians. Heck they're all from Jordan anyway so send them there. That is unless they can act like a bunch of grown up. If not, start packing.-
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PalestinianTruth10 months, 3 weeks ago
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BB64 , good way to completely avoid the issue and demagogue my comments ( typical zionist propagandist tactic). It is a well known fact that Israel spies on the U.S, steals its milatary technology, and then pressures the U.S into wars that are Israel's fights. And by the way, the Israeli CIA is called the Mossad. You see that Neocon diagram is a progession chart of all the Israel-firsters who love israel a hell of lot more than they love america and are willing to sacrificie american blood and not their blood or Israel's blood to fight all the wars in the Middle East. BB64, The way you completely ignored the topic shows how much you like the fact that Israel exploits and undermines the U.S security by running the most aggressive spying operation of any country in the world, to be hidden. For any people who want to see my latest article on Israeli spying, here is the link
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/29/the-amer...
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Endoscopy10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Absolutely silly. Some of them are conservatives but Trotsky etc. What a crock. Maybe there needs to be a liberal version with the communists figured prominently. Need to be fair. Where is that fairness doctrine?
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And people tried to tell me that Shana4Liberty was a conservative. That is funny.-
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vor10 months, 3 weeks ago
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You are showing your bias toward delusion again.
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There is a big difference between a neocon and a conservative.
A neocon sees the less fortunate (usually brown skinned) as fodder for their cannons. They use frontmen for leaders so they can scurry behind the scenes like the rats they are.
While a true conservative likes to keep Fat Daddy propped up and joins him in dismissing the less fortunate living in the squalor beneath his fat feet.
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NoWayMan10 months, 3 weeks ago
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the chart is great. a who's who of failed neocon policy. one thing it left out was the neocons' recent foreign connections, one of the biggest of which was to the South African pro-apartheid movement, a movement in which the American neocon establishment was very active.
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the neocon era will be marked by arrogance, hubris, amorality, failure and a total lack of awareness about how the world really works and how people really are.
they've been dead wrong on just about everything, and its usually because of the human element involved, which is the element the neocons know nothing about.
trickle down economics, pre-emptive war, the imposition of will on foreign peoples, unitary executive theory, the trampling of the constitution, all these things will be tied to the neocons forever. -
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mesodude10 months, 3 weeks ago
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"A quirky ending imagines George W. Bush looking back with satisfaction on world events in 2016, suggesting that history may redeem the neocons, which seems unlikely at best, and possibly delusional."
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--It is scary to think how right wingers are currently re-writing the past (by re-characterizing events like the New Deal) the present (Barney Frank and Chris Dodd--not Bush and the neocons-are the cause of the world economy's meltdown) and the future (as the quote above suggests).-
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jimdoze10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Beau789010 months, 3 weeks ago
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Are you saying replacing militaristic imperialism as our sole way of conducting foreign policy, and adding diplomacy is a "cold war world view"? If so, what we've had for the past eight years is a "medieval world view."
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Please explain.
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