"...Until someone comes up with better ideas than these, the neocon strategy of trying to transform the Middle East, however blemished, remains without alternative. No doubt, the results of the midterm elections will produce some course corrections (as Rumsfeld has discovered). But neocon ideas are unlikely to be jettisoned -- either by Bush or his successor -- until a viable replacement is found. So far, there is none.
The WaPo demonstrates, once again, that democrats have no ideas, only carping.
Only once the Dems screw up.
Nope. What is the matter if Junk Media types are too arrogantly certain of their own infallablity they have refused to learn even the simplest facts about Iraq because they do not validate their domestic political bigotry.
As anyone who actually KNOWS the facts, Iraq is the most successful Counter Insurgency mission in history.
So sorry American morons in the DC Media-Political Complex that war does not run according to your "Military training from watching Rambo Movies" taught you to expect.
Want to fix Iraq Junk Media? Sit down, shut up and get out of the way. You have utterly failed to find out even the basic facts abot the mission in Iraq in three years. Time for the drama queens in the Junk media to just get out of the way.
Everyone focusus on the Neocon's foreign policy. Their domestic policy is equally obnoxious.
Neocon schmeocon. The whole article is nothing but vindictive leftist labeling, with scarcely a thought in its head. What else can you expect from the ComPost?
Just wait for another attack here in the US. The citizenry will not put up with "business as usual". There will be a howl for the removal of state and federal officials who have done nothing for our security.
The gun industry is beginning to see a huge surge in business with concealed carry purmits, training, and passage of the "Castle Doctrine" laws. Liberals will see the end of their efforts and the need to transform our country into a fortress for combating Islam will proceed full force. Islam is the problem and calling it a "religion of peace" is balony.
If I understand the basic principle of "neo" conservative,these people seem to be more globally oriented then grand dad's version of conservatives.In a shrinking world this concept may have merit,however when it includes nation building or tearing down our national borders I've got no use for the philosophy !!!
The libs are trying to flatter the neos...and succeeding. The neos just love flattery...catch the Election Issue of Vanity Fair.
One of the few positive things to have happened is that "Neocons" have been thoroughly discredited. Earth to Bill Kristol, don't promote a war, unless you have the balls to fight it.
Operation Comeback. How to Save the Neocons
American Enterprise Institute ^ | 11/1/06 | Joshua Muravchik
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736193/posts
Posted on 11/10/2006 7:23:07 AM CST by Valin
TO: My Fellow Neoconservatives FROM: Joshua Muravchik RE: How to Save the Neocons
We neoconservatives have been through a startling few years. Who could have imagined six years ago that wild stories about our influence over U.S. foreign policy would reach the far corners of the globe? The loose group of us who felt impelled by the antics of the 1960s to migrate from the political left to right must have numbered fewer than 100. And we were proven losers at Washington’s power game: The left had driven us from the Democratic Party, stolen the “liberal” label, and successfully affixed to us the name “neoconservative.” In reality, of course, we don’t wield any of the power that contemporary legend attributes to us. Most of us don’t rise at the crack of dawn to report to powerful jobs in government. But it is true that our ideas have influenced the policies of President George W. Bush, as they did those of President Ronald Reagan. That does feel good. Our intellectual contributions helped to defeat communism in the last century and, God willing, they will help to defeat jihadism in this one. It also feels good to see that a number of young people and older converts are swelling our ranks.
The price of this success is that we are subjected to relentless obloquy. “Neocon” is now widely synonymous with “ultraconservative” or, for some, “dirty Jew.” A young Egyptian once said to me, “‘Neoconservative’ sounds to our ears like ‘terrorist’ sounds to yours.” I am shocked to hear that some among us, wearying of these attacks, are sidling away from the neocon label. Where is the joie de combat? The essential tenets of neoconservatism--belief that world peace is indivisible, that ideas are powerful, that freedom and democracy are universally valid, and that evil exists and must be confronted--are as valid today as when we first began. That is why we must continue to fight. But we need to sharpen our game. Here are some thoughts on how to do it:
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Why are neo-cons considered a Republican phenomenon?
Disillusioned liberal intellectuals in the 1970s fled the New Left-dominated Democrat Party under a shower of insulting taunts from the extremists, "Neo-Cons!"
The liberals were too traditional, too patriotic, too pro-America for what is the Democrat Party.
The liberals did not want to "Bring it all down, man." They had to be purged and destroyed along with conservatives.
Pat Buchanan has referred to them as "McGovern boat people."
Especially in Kosovo. Is it a joke?
That's a knee-slapper if I ever saw one! I couldn't stop laughing for at least 10 minutes after I read it.
The neocons are in such a state of denial it's beyond funny.
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-- RONALD REAGAN, 1975
Multi-party political system is the only answer. Make the stupid voters choose a party with clearly defined ideas. Don't make them register as members of one or another party at government expense. If they want to join a party they can, and they can pay their dues, and vote their intra party elections, at party expense. The RATS won this time, remember, by outconservativing the Pubbies, Unfreakingbelieveable, freakingmeaningless.