[IRAQ]: Wheat from chaff

From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 19:18:41 MDT

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    <<Neocons are allied with their friends in the Beltway Libertarian
    community, and these deep-seated bonds are puzzling. This has led to
    Libertarians relentlessly attacking libertarians. This sort of thing, on
    the Internet, has become a labyrinth of ideologies, alliances,
    hatefests, catfights, and muddled truths. Everybody is attacking
    everyone else, and they are, supposedly, all libertarians.>>

    Sound familiar? There's more:

    <<As every chirping bird out there repeats ad nauseum post-9/11,
    "everything's changed." What’s really changed is that the war
    "libertarians" have fought bitterly to denounce non-pro-war libertarians
    and their adherence to ABC axioms of libertarianism. (And I need not
    explain all that again here.) This has led to the creation of the
    Neocon-Libertarian Monster. The libertarian stance on war, as Jacob
    Hornberger once remarked to me, "separates the wheat from the chaff."
    Indeed it has.>>

    Now on to the trotskyist references:

    <<Let’s start with the neocons. As I discussed with someone the other
    day, the Neocons are far more attacking, far more militant, and thus far
    more obsessed with what everyone else is doing much more so than the
    Left ever was. And as Bush's regime proves, they are a much greater
    threat to liberty than those on the Left. [!!!-mwiik] I'll be
    documenting this in an upcoming column.

    The Neocons hate us non-Left Libertarians, non-Lifestyle Libertarians,
    non- Beltway Libertarians...or whatever you want to call us. Aside from
    that, they form these strange alliances with Left-Libertarians,
    Lifestyle Libertarians, Beltway Libertarians, and the Neocons that claim
    libertarianism as their new cultural mantra.

    Here is the new rage on the Internet (especially in blogging): become
    disenchanted with the Republican party, maintain the Social Democrat
    core philosophy, keep yourself emotionally attached to the movement
    principals, stay comrades with the old gang, but call yourself a
    "libertarian." Sound familiar? It’s very similar to the embittered
    Trotskyites leaving for the Republican Party, calling themselves
    "conservatives" and becoming the dreaded Neocons, thus destroying the
    conservative movement.>>

    There's much more at:

    http://www.karendecoster.com/2003_05_01_blog_archive.html#200263400

    Enjoy,
            -Mike 

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