[marsh_of_mists]

I don't know...Wasn't regular old conservatism good enough? Also, those decribed as "neoconservatives" are often into government centralization, globalism, big spending, etc. Not good things.

[goldstategop]

No, it wasn't. If the paleos had it their way, the Soviet Union would still be standing. Ronald Reagan ignored them and supported freedom movements around the periphery of the Soviet Empire and launched the missle defense project. Stability is NOT a good thing. Change is better when it gets rid of the conditions that allow evil to endure.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[NZerFromHK]

British conservatism is different from the conservatism familiar to Americans. It is more like a mix of paleoconservatism and defeatist-we-need-to-accommodate-the-times-Kissenger-realpolitik. When a Briton says neoconservatism, in the British sense it means the Reagan-type American conservatism.