But a lot of ex-Trotskyists became neo-cons didnt they: Irving Kristol, James Burnham, Kristol's son William is now chair of the Project for the New American Century I believe.
Cheers, Ken Hanly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 5:52 PM Subject: [PEN-L:36282] Re: Perle before Swine > > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Devine, James wrote: > > > So Wolfowitz, Perle, and Feith were once leftists of a sort (social dems > > who sided with the US in the Cold War) who worked for Scoop Jackson? > > I don't think they were ever leftists of any sort (although I'd be > interested to learn otherwise). I think they were centrist cold war > democrats who by that time had become neoconservatives. The majority of > neocons at that point were still Democrats. It was only under Reagan that > the majority migrated over to the Republicans. Scoop attracted a whole > bunch of them in the early 70s because he already prided himself on their > two main foreign policy points: toughness on the Soviets and stalwart > support for our newly acquired and embattled little brother ally Israel. > For him of course the Jackson-Vanik amendment was a twofer. > > BTW, in the context of current debates, it's good to keep in mind that > these guys were relative pipsqueaks at the time, and that the founders of > neoconservative foreign policy (and Israel's privileged place within it) > were all goyim: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Robert Tucker > and Samuel P. Huntington. Scoop of course was a Presbyterian. It all > started out as way of revivifying the cold war consensus in the aftermath > of Vietnam. > > Michael >
