Sunday, March 06, 2011

Are We All Neocons Now?

Charles Krauthammer thinks so:

Now that revolutions are sweeping the Middle East and everyone is a convert to George W. Bush's freedom agenda, it's not just Iraq that has slid into the memory hole. Also forgotten is the once proudly proclaimed "realism" of Years One and Two of President Obama's foreign policy - the "smart power" antidote to Bush's alleged misty-eyed idealism.

1 comment:

Mr. Mcgranor said...

I urge you to understand that there is a cultural conrast between tradition (fringe-reactionary) American culture and certain aspects of the Mid-East. The void is left by such a contrast. There is also commonality--as in whom is the only other culture opposing globalization? What is going to fill that void? When a paleoconservative is just as vehement in opposing actual Mohammedans--whom the neoconservatives call radical--we are all neoconservatives. Wanting a secular abyss to enfold the world for nihilistic freedom is the goal of the neoconservatives and even Libertarians. We paleoconservatives do not want an influx of Mohammedans, for the same reason we who are Protestant did not and do not want Papists here--imposing their Government and its religion.

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