[WMarshal]

"Really? Name calling?"

Are you claiming that being a neocon is a bad thing? I think that it is a bad thing and if you do too then maybe we have some common ground.

[Rockingham]

"Neocon" is a dated term that originally referred to often Jewish academic liberals who moved Right in the 1970s and 80s due to the Left's domestic policy failures and out of alarm at rising Soviet strength. The original neocons supported Reagan over Jimmy Carter and contributed significantly to policy successes of Reagan's administration.

Nowadays, "neocon" is usually tossed at someone seen as deviating from conservative orthodoxy. And that is just silly.

My views as to Russia are the same as Ronald Reagan: we win, they lose. Read the declassified Reagan administration national security memoranda for an understanding of how we won the Cold War. Today, the objective remains the same: we win, they lose. Really, if that makes me a neocon, then I am comfortable to be one and in the august company of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.