Mitt Romney's 22 foreign policy advisors aka Romney's Shadow National Security Council is riddled with NeoCons, and a NeoCon wrote Romney's foreign policy speech at the Citadel.
Obama rode into Libya on a coalition between the NeoCon Republicans and the Liberal Interventionist Democrats. And when the House Republicans thought about playing some politics over Libya, the NeoCons told them to shut up, which they did.
Hang onto your seats boys and girls, if romney gets elected and puts the NeoCons in charge of foreign policy, there will be boots on the ground in Iran and Syria to do humanitarianism and nation building.
1988 article.
The neo-con label he referred to had a very different meaning from today. For one thing, it had very little to do with foreign policy.
Though I must admit I’m a little unclear what “neo-con” means today. Seems to be used by all sorts of people to slam anybody they disagree with.
Making the world safe for democracy doesn’t make sense, especially when you are trying to make Muslim countries democratic.
They must forget that America is a republic, not a democracy.