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To: The_Victor
It's the Jooooooooooooooooooos and neocons promoting the fluoridation our water supply to rob us of our precious bodily fluids....

What a racist statement.

Neoconservatism

According to Peter Steinfels, a historian of the movement, the neoconservatives' "emphasis on foreign affairs emerged after the New Left and the counterculture had dissolved as convincing foils for neoconservatism . . .

The essential source of their anxiety is not military or geopolitical or to be found overseas at all; it is domestic and cultural and ideological." Neoconservative foreign policy parallels their domestic policy. They insist that the U.S. military must be strong enough to control the world, or else the world will descend into chaos.

Believing that America should "export democracy," that is, spread its ideals of government, economics, and culture abroad, they grew to reject U.S. reliance on international organizations and treaties to accomplish these objectives.

Compared to other U.S. conservatives, neoconservatives may be characterized by an idealist stance on foreign policy, a lesser social conservatism, and a much weaker dedication to a policy of minimal government, and, in the past, a greater acceptance of the welfare state. Consequently, neoconservatives advocate the spread of democracy to regions of the world where it currently does not prevail, most notably the Arab nations of the Middle East, communist China, North Korea and Iran. neoconservatism "originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals. Neoconservatives also have a very strong belief in the ability of the United States to install democracy after a conflict -

19 posted on 08/09/2007 10:31:37 AM PDT by KDD (Ron Paul for President.)
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To: KDD
What a racist statement

I wasn't aware that neocons are a race. Learn something new every day I suppose.

34 posted on 08/09/2007 10:38:42 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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