[Steve0113]

EVERY paleo-con understands that the Gummint has TWO minimum functions: defend the shores and deliver the mail.

What about coining money and enforcing contracts?

[ninenot]

You are correct. There are some other minimums, too.

However, my point (perhaps lost in the rhetoric) was that being a proponent of national defense is not a 'defining' mark either of neo- or paleo- con inclinations. Thus, for one to claim that Reagan was a 'neo-con' who re-built national defense is similar to saying that Clinton was from Arkansas and he destroyed national defense.

One does not NECESSARILY follow from the other.