Gautam wrote:
I wrote:
Isn't the president and much, if not all of his
administration Neocon?
Not at all. Unfortunately, neocon has been turned
into a phrase that basically means "person of
conservative persuasion with whom I disagree". A
quick and dirty way to figure out who is a neocon
might be, "Who votes Republican _and_ thinks that
human rights are the most important thing on earth?"
The set is not exactly large, for good or ill :-)
So you would disagree with the profile I posted?
Without going into the history of that particular
word, the most important neocon in the Administration
(was) Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
The only reason anyone has heard of him is because he
is Jewish.
Wolfowitz was the ideological father of PNAC who's founding members also
included the the vice president, the Secretary of Defense and the
president's brother.
Maybe, but are there many people in the world whom a
democratized and pacified Middle East _wouldn't_
benefit? And would we want those people to be better
off, even if they wouldn't benefit from it?
Of course, but what does that have to do with anti-Semitism?
--
Doug
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