Did YOU vote for Reagan? Then YOU voted for a neo-con.
Hell look at his profile he probably isn't old enough to vote today.
Ronald Reagan was no neocon - his policy 'The Reagan Doctrine' was to allow people to free themselves rather then free them by force. Where Reagan followed necon policy in Afghanistan and Lebanon it was a failure -yes arming the Muslims and building a network of jihad was a Jimmy Carter neocon (most original neocons are Democrats like Richard Perle) policy that had a terrible blowback.
You are playing word games; but not very good ones at that. Ronald Reagan may have been a "liberal," in his youth. He was a solid traditional Conservative by the time he made the most famous speech of the Goldwater campaign in 1964. Calling a Goldwater Conservative a "neo-con," is ridiculous.
Frankly, and personally, I injected myself into one of these defining threads about a year ago, to question whether neo-con did not in fact relate to the idea of a new conservative, rather than some form of wacked out theorist--as it has lately been used for--and was told in effect to butt out. That "neo-cons" on the thread were simply defining their movement.
While I think most of those who choose to label themselves as "neo-cons," meaning not newly Conservative but rather embracing a most unconservative policy, are intellectual jokes, I am concerned by the statement sometimes encountered that some of them have openly identified with Leon Trotsky. Is there any truth to that? Trotsky, of course, represented the brutal Left of Bolshevism, head of the original Red Army. He was Left of both Stalin and Hitler.
While some people, such as Whitaker Chambers, left Communism and came to accept and speak out for traditional Western values, many who left Communism simply left Communism; they left the specific movement, or party. They did not repudiate its ideology. If there are such "neo-cons," who have ties to the extreme Left of the Communist world, is it not appropriate to inquire as to how specific and how detailed has been their repudiation of Marxist values. Trotsky was a very, very evil man!
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