[Alberta's Child]

Marxism is an economic theory and the neocon movement is a belief that we should act preemptively in the world.

"Neo-conservatism" is more complex than that. It is rooted in a philosophy of big-government globalism that has no basis in U.S. Constitutional law. This is why, for example, you never hear neo-conservatives in the media supporting strict constructionism as a constitutional philosophy, and why most neo-cons have no problem with blatant violations of constitutional law (like gun control).

I don't know if that makes them "Marxists," but it sure as hell doesn't make them "conservative" in any sense, either.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

It is rooted in a philosophy of big-government globalism that has no basis in U.S. Constitutional law.

Er, well, technically Taftian isolationism has no basis in U.S. Constitutional law, either....

[MEGoody]

So basically what you're saying is, if one can't pretend that what goes on in the world doesn't affect him/her or at least refuse to take action even if it does affect him/her, then one cannot be a conservative.

In that case, I wouldn't WANT to be what you consider to be a conservative (i.e. and ostrich with head firmly in sand).