[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Neoconservatism and Wilson have almost nothing in common except the belief that there should be a moral component to foreign policy decisions.

What??? Good grief... What planet are you on? Read Churchill. Ever heard of the Versailles Treaty?

If Bush's policy wonks were inspired by reading Leo Strauss at Harvard, yes, it's relevant to their thinking and ideology. Whether Neocon American Republicans are likely to determine the future of "civilization" is an open question. Whether the lifestyle expectations of middle-class, social Darwinist people in Westchester, Fairfield, Montgomery, and Fairfax County ought to determine the future of world civilization is also an open question. [Irony Alert]

They might want to solve the violence in their own cities before dumping funds abroad. [SARCASM]

[Belisaurius]

The Versailles treaty vs. Neoconservatism's desire to use US military and economic hegenomy. Wilson tried to ensure peace by establishing the League of Nations while the Neoconservatives are trying to ensure peace by intimidation through overwhelming might...and you're asking me what planet I'm on. The two don't compare, not a wit.

The only thing they have in common is opposition from little america isolationists.

[epigone73]

Trust me, reading leo strauss is one of the best cures for political ambition in the modern world. his students and he himself had no interest in politics, notwithstanding that some of their students went on to prominence.

Strauss was concerned with philosophy and hermeneutics, not so much with exporting revolution, etc.

This Strauss-bashing crap has got to stop. first the lefties blame him for Newt and Clarence thomas, now the Right blame him for a crusading policy with Machiavellian intentions.

Make up your minds, people. was he an evil rightist, a hidden leftist, or maybe, just maybe, a brilliant scholar who had some students who also went on into politics?