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BplusK asks: "ANYONE RECOGNIZES HIMSELF/HERSELF HERE ?"

...No...And these are some of the specific areas that I disagree with...

"...But they are impatient with the Hayekian notion that we are on "the road to serfdom." Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable. Because they tend to be more interested in history than economics or sociology, they know that the 19th-century idea, so neatly propounded by Herbert Spencer in his "The Man Versus the State," was a historical eccentricity. People have always preferred strong government to weak government..." [emphasis added]

...Many of the 'Neo-Cons' started out on the extreme 'left' of the political spectrum [Marxism, Trotskyism, etc.]...I fear that they may have simply traded one form of collectivism/statism for another...

So Neocons are Empirists, and Conservatives support the Republic?

I am not a Republican, but I am a die-hard republican.

However, it seems foolish to deny that the Republic has ended.

We are at a crossroad.
We will either dissolve, be overrun and fade away or be the next great empire, encompassing and controlling the entire world.

There's no middle path.
Given that, it's better to lead the empire than be subjected to it.

We have to decide soon.

Like I said, the neo-cons are traditional liberals who have fled the socialism of the Democrat party for the free-markets and more fiscally conservative Republican Party. The Democrats are not liberals and the neo-cons are not conservative.