If You Don't Understand the Neocons... If you don't understand the neocons, you can't possibly understand squat about contemporary American politics. To understand the neocons, you need to read large swaths of Commentary, their lead journal, over several decades, especially starting in the early seventies. You need to grasp all their core assumptions, obsessions and thought patterns. You need to be able to accurately map their social network across many institutions, think tanks, media outlets and government agencies. Any conspiracy theorist or conspiracy researcher who has failed to finish his or her homework on this subject is simply blowing hot air. You don't know what you are talking about. That includes Larry Chin and most of the denizens of cia-drugs. 90% of "the conspiracy community" consists of folks who can't parse paragraphs from Commentary, not to mention from advanced journals of political science. So basically they are going nowhere and wasting their time and ours. And that's the name of that tune, baby.
VMANN: i dont claim to be an expert, but arent you begging the question here? the inherent question is whether the "neocons" are part of an organized "dialectic." is there a breakdown in the oligarchical structure? i dunno. perhaps. vigilisu haufniensis
