I thought it was neoconservatives = trotskyites.
Make up your minds.
Playing God, the desire to remake the world in their own image, some people think big -"national greatness," "benevolent global hegemony" and "Pax Americana," " moral clarity" and "spreading democracy." Such big ideas.
Here's Irving Kristol in his own words:
" a great power, the "national interest" is not a geographical term..... A smaller nation might appropriately feel that its national interest begins and ends at its borders, so that its foreign policy is almost always in a defensive mode. A larger nation has more extensive interests. And large nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear and the United States of today, inevitably have ideological interests "
- "What's the point of being the greatest, most powerful nation in the world and not having an imperial role? It's unheard of in human history. The most powerful nation always had an imperial role."
- "I think it would be natural for the United States . . . to play a far more dominant role in world affairs. Not what we're doing now but to command and to give orders as to what is to be done. People need that."