[rmlew]

If you interested in more readings on this issue, go to google and put in neo-conservative and Trotskyite, and you will learn more about the Trotskyite background of many prominent neo-cons. Unfortunately, a few of the links pulled up were unsavory to say the least, but there is some stuff from places like Lew Rockwell.com, etc.

I am very well aware that many older neo-cons were communists, mostly aligned with Trotskyite groups.
That mans nothing by itself. Richard Weaver, author of Ideas have Consequences was a communist in his youth. Many conservatives were. The issue is that you are labeling all neocons as Trotskyites.

My view is that any philosophy which is committed to "global democracy" and "global capitalism" is not that far removed from "global socialism".

Their universalist asparations are troubling. However, they support semi-limited government, private property, and less regultion. That isn't socialist.

By the way, I have noticed that your posts are not generally, excepting the issue of Israel, perhaps, of a neo-con bent.

I support Israel for a number of reasons. We are in a Clash of civilizations with the Mohammedins. Israel is an outpost. My solution in Israel is for a population transfer. It is one that would make neocons cringe.
You don't have to be a neocon to support Israel. I would argue that many paleos hate Israel only because most neocons love it.
Frankly, Israel can be used as a great tool to teach neocons and Chrsitian Zionists about the virtues of racialist realities.

Why, then, do you defend the neo-cons, as you have done on several other threads?

I hit both neocons and paleo-cons when I think they are wrong.
I am trying to get each side to see the others arguements.

[Mark Bahner]

"However, they support semi-limited government,..."

Considering that the federal government takes approximately 1/4 of this nation's income, and neo-conservative G.W. Bush's last budget proposed a whopping 9% increase in spending (i.e. much more than the <3% annual rate of inflation), I'd say neo-conservatives' version of "semi-limited" is about 5 times the size I support.

It's a shame neoconservatives don't support a federal government limited to the size authorized by the Constitution.