To: Borges; jdm
To the best of my knowledge it's a foriegn policy distinction. 'Neocons' believe in taking an active role in the world affairs as opposed to isolationaist 'Paleocons' like Pat Buchanan who are closer to the 1930s style anti-Semitic Republicans who were opposed to entering WW2 (a decision which Pat has also questioned). Playing the race card, are we?
To: Age of Reason
Chill out. The Republican party in the 1920s and 1930s was quite antisemitic. David Horowitz has said so. That's why so many Depression era Jewish people worshiped FDR. It's certainly not that way now. If you don't think Pat Buchanan, who is virtually a reincarnation of a 1930s style Republican, flirts with antisemitism then I don't know what to say.
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08/10/2005 4:51:55 PM PDT by
Borges
To: Age of Reason
If I did, I didn't mean to. An isolationist foreign policy is as old as our founding fathers. In fact, it was a bedrock conservative principle all the way through Reagan. Don't get involved in foreign wars unless its absolutely necessary
It was liberal dreamers like Woodrow Wilson who coined the phrase, "making the world safe for democracy!" Wilson just happens to be a neocon favorite now.
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