From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 08:57:26 MDT
dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/8/2003 9:01:10 AM Central Standard Time,
> mwiik@messagenet.com writes: Neocons have been portrayed as basically
> communists, specifically trotskyists, with their penchant for reshaping the
> world through war.
>
> Mike,
> Are you kidding? The article was entirely about conservatives. <G>
> Ron h.
Not at all. I hadn't thoroughly read the specific article Samantha was
referring to. I did glance at it, and it seemed to contain no new
information for me. The trotskyist notion was from some lewrockwell.com
article.
My view, in a nutshell: There are conservatives of various stripes, one
of which is called neoconservatism. The shortest definition of a neocon
is 'a liberal who's been mugged'. But I don't get the idea that
neoconservatism is derived in meaningful measure from conservative values.
Lee Corbin surprised me the other day with his 'what is PNAC?' question.
It's not like a conspiracy, these people have their own website. Their
views are clear. This has never been about WOMD, and this has been clear
as fetus pee since this whole thing started. I shudder to think that I
am the extropian who's done the most reading on this war. Discussions
could be improved if we all agreed on a set of documents to be read
prior to mouthing off here....
-Mike
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