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	US News / Special: Empire Builders / Neocon 101 \| Christian Science Monitor
		The original neocons were a small group of mostly Jewish liberal intellectuals who, in the 1960s and 70s, grew disenchanted with what they saw as the American left's social excesses and reluctance to spend adequately on defense.
		Neocons envision a world in which the United States is the unchallenged superpower, immune to threats.
		In the neocon dream world the entire Middle East would be democratized in the belief that this would eliminate a prime breeding ground for terrorists.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/neocon/neocon101.html (1009 words)

	Michael Novak on Neoconservatism on National Review Online
		Often it happened that the early neocons became at least a little more respectful of their own religious tradition, took "the sacred" more seriously (as Daniel Bell did), and began to assert that there is actually more wisdom in a religious than in an austerely secular outlook.
		What the neocons (how we hated that name in the early days, most of us, and rejected it, and refused it, and rebutted it, in vain) had learned from the Left was that, in political competition, the party better placed to win is the party with the most attractive and realistic picture of future goals.
		Neocons are on the whole cheerful folk, always ready for new battles, who fight with a certain joy and gusto, nourished by a real hope.
	www.nationalreview.com /novak/novak052003.asp (1056 words)

	Special Report
		Neocons like the Rostow brothers and Ben Wattenberg, who served in the Johnson administration, helped LBJ drum up support for the Vietnam War among Jewish liberal Democrats who had been opposed to that military adventure.
		However, it was the end of the Cold War that spelled disaster to the neocons, now at risk of being deprived of their favorite enemy and the justification for the strategic alliance between Washington and Jerusalem.
		The neocons' main antagonists in the successful effort to get the United States to start shooting in the campaign to contain Saddam were the so-called "paleoconservatives," such as Pat Buchanan and Joseph Sobran, who since the end of the Cold War had been advocating a less activist American foreign policy.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0491/9104027.htm (2097 words)

	CFR Publications: Think Again: Neocons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Neocons believe the United States should use force when necessary to champion its ideals as well as its interests, not only out of sheer humanitarianism but also because the spread of liberal democracy improves U.S. security, while crimes against humanity inevitably make the world a more dangerous place.
		Neocons, by contrast, are committed above all to U.S. global leadership, and they know that the costs of such leadership (including peacekeeping and nation building) are so high that the United States needs allies to share the burden.
		But fairly or not, neocons will doubtless be held responsible for the outcome in both countries; their numerous enemies, on both the left and the right, will see to that.
	www.cfr.org /pub6709/max_boot/think_again_neocons.php (2774 words)

	Neoconservatism in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The neoconservatives, often dubbed the neocons by critics, are credited with (or blamed for) influencing U.S. foreign policy, especially under the administrations of Ronald Reagan ( 1981 â“ 1989) and George W. Bush ( 2001 â“present).
		The fact that most of the younger neocons were never on the left is irrelevant; they are the intellectual (and, in the case of William Kristol and John Podhoretz, the literal) heirs of older ex-leftists." [6]
		Instead, he mostly favored quick campaigns to attack or overthrow terrorist groups or leftist governments, favoring small, quick interventions that heightened a sense of post-Vietnam triumphalism among Americans, such as the attacks on Grenada and Libya, and arming right-wing militias in Central America seeking to overthrow radical leftist governments such as that of the Sandinistas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neoconservatism_(United_States) (6117 words)

	Neocon Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Peter Principle and the neocon coup by Robert Scheer
		It's typical of the neocons that they would try to blame the very people who warned against rushing to war for the consequences of their ideology-driven policy.
		The neoCons of the Bush Administration adopted the Sharon pose that Arafat was the only stumbling block to peace in the Middle East.
	neoconswatch.blogspot.com (2507 words)

	Whiskey Bar: What is a Neocon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I think he likes the neocons main ideology which is absolute american hegemony, but i can't imagine that it involves any sort of morality, he supported apartheid south africa and called mandela a terrorist, which drives many of the neocons such as kristol.
		Where the Neocons are so willing to use the military to advance political goals, Cheney uses it to advance financial ones, though it is important to note that corporatists such as Cheney consider the maintenance and advancement of financial goals to be a national strategic interest.
		The neocon plan now grinding into disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan is the inevitable consequence of their projection of their experience of cultural assimilation onto the rest of the world.
	billmon.org /archives/000942.html (12601 words)

	OUR HIJACKED FOREIGN POLICY
		Now, in the wake of 9/11, they have seized their chance, and are taking the offensive: Kristol and a coterie of his fellow neocons recently signed an open letter to the President calling for the military occupation of not only Iraq, but also Syria, Iran, and much of the rest of the Middle East.
		The neocons may be all over the map on domestic policy, exhibiting none of the gut-level distrust of government power that defines the traditional American Right, but on the vital question of foreign policy they have been the most consistently belligerent faction in American politics.
		During the cold war, as Sobran correctly notes, the neocons were the most militant faction, and they came into policy positions during the Reagan administration, boring their way into the National Endowment for Democracy, and under the aegis of such ex-Democrats as Jeanne Kirkpatrick.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j032502.html (3554 words)

	"Practice to Deceive" by Joshua Micah Marshall
		As is often the case with ex-socialists, the neocons were too familiar with communist tactics to ignore or romanticize communism's evils.
		The fact that many neocons were Jewish, and outraged by Moscow's increasingly visible persecution of Jews, also caused them to reject both the McGovernite and Kissingerian tendencies to ignore such abuses.
		Neocons filled the Reagan administration, and men like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney, and others provided the intellectual ballast and moral fervor for the sharp turn toward confrontation that the United States adopted in 1981.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2003/0304.marshall.html (4499 words)

	Neocons in Denial, by Justin Raimondo
		The neocons wrote manifestos in their subsidized little journals, they signed open letters urging an invasion of this country or that, they wrote op ed pieces and their front groups lobbied Congress and the American public — which is why it has been possible for Lind, Alterman, Buchanan, myself, and others to write about it.
		The neocons, on the other hand, fail to distinguish between Israeli and American interests, and one has to assume that this is a sincerely held belief.
		The neocon takeover of American foreign policy did not begin yesterday, and is not the victory of an "all-powerful" clique that has its hands on the secret levers of power.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j043003.html (2246 words)

	Neo-CONNED!
		Neocon spokesman Max Boot brags that what he advocates is “hard Wilsonianism.” In many ways, there’s nothing “neo” about their views, and certainly nothing conservative.
		The breakup of the Soviet system may well have been an epic event but to say that the views of the neocons are the unchallenged victors and that all we need do is wait for their implementation is a capitulation to controlling the forces of history that many Americans are not yet ready to concede.
		Neocons, unfortunately, claim that war is in man’s nature and that we can’t do much about it, so let’s use it to our advantage by promoting our goodness around the world through force of arms.
	www.house.gov /paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr071003.htm (6402 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Twilight of the Neocons? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But to understand how the neocons were able to grab control of American foreign policy in the wake of 9/11 -- and why their influence is so hard to dislodge now -- it's important to go back and look at how they achieved their influence in the first place.
		The Neocons were in fact given staff positions way in excess of the numbers that were needed by an administration seeming not at (even an ideological) war with anyone.
		And I think that one motivation for the neocon desire to invade Iraq was to establish permanent military bases there (which it appears they are going to do--and that is one reason why the Bushies are unlikely to allow the Iraqis to actually elect their own leaders).
	billmon.org /archives/000924.html (18616 words)

	The Neocons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Characterized as former liberals turned conservative, the Neocons have diminished their credibility by sponsoring an ill-conceived and disastrous Iraq war that expanded terrorism, caused a loss of American lives and invited a decline in U.S. prestige.
		However, Neocons survive by not being directly allied to a particular political party and not being responsive to the demands of the general public.
		Co-authorship is common among the neocons: Brooks and Kristol, Kristol and Kagan, Frum and Perle.
	www.alternativeinsight.com /Neocons.html (1700 words)

	Neil Seeman on Neoconservatives & War on National Review Online
		Neocons are the newly fashionable targets of media derision.
		The war Netanyahu and the neocons want, with the United States and Israel fighting all of the radical Islamic states, is the war bin Laden wants, the war his murderers hoped to ignite when they sent those airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
		Neocons are "Washington's War Party"; the neocons are implacable and blood thirsty; and so on and so forth.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-seeman030602.shtml (535 words)

	Among the Neocons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Add to them Samuel Huntington, the Harvard political scientist who—if he wasn’t a neocon by virtue of institutional ties, as a moderately hawkish and conservative Democrat seemed to be an almost pure representative of the ideological tendency—and you had a situation in which the neocon bastion was riven by defections of major figures.
		The neocons have no problem with those parts of the Christian Right that view the gathering of Jews in the Holy Land as a prelude to the final Armageddon, in which all Jews will convert to Christianity or perish.
		This is in considerable part the “accomplishment” of America’s neocons, the fruit of the power they have achieved in the conservative movement and the influence they wield with an inexperienced and simple president.
	www.amconmag.com /04_21_03/cover.html (2861 words)

	How Ahmed Chalabi Conned the Neocons
		Had the neocons not been deluded by gross ignorance of the Arab world and blinded by wishful thinking, they would have realized that the chances that Chalabi or any other Iraqi leader could deliver on such promises were always remote.
		I'm sure he told [the neocons] these things could happen, that he played to their prejudices and said, 'This is the new Middle East,' but he didn't believe any of it.
		The neocons were deeply disturbed by the Israeli government's "land for peace" negotiations with the Palestinians.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news1/salon8.html (5980 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Vision of the neocons stays fixed on making hard choices
		The neocons felt they were delivering stern, sobering truths, wake-up calls with all the kick of a strong espresso: that liberating Iraq and making an awesome show of American power was vital for the US and the world, that democracy would spread through the region as dictators fell like dominoes.
		But her comments underline a pervasive sense that the marriage of the neocons and the Rumsfeld wing of the Bush administration may be heading for the rocks.
		Like almost all neocons, he is a former Democrat, combining a liberal sense of mission to spread democratic ideas with a traditional conservative readiness to use military force.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1047850,00.html (1523 words)

	Original Dissent - Those Cuckoo Neocons
		Similarly, while Rightists consider the national interest to be the metric for deciding the wisdom of foreign policy measures, neocons wax rhapsodic over the "International Community" and push much of the same globalist foreign policy as their counterparts on the Left such as Strobe Talbott or George Soros.
		Neocons were originally welcomed not because their worldview was at all in sync with that of the authentic Right, but rather because they spouted a few conservative-sounding buzzwords that appealed to knee-jerk establishment conservatives.
		For all intents and purposes, the neocons opposed the Soviet Union on the grounds that the Soviet regime was "anti-Semitic" and because the USSR had Arab clients which threatened Israel.
	www.originaldissent.com /shpak040902.html (1397 words)

	FORWARD : In Other Words... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Moreover, while neocons may love the aggressive National Security Strategy issued by the administration in 2002, there are plenty of areas in which Bush has spurned neoconservative ideas.
		Neocons have been relatively influential because of the strength of their arguments, not their connections," he writes.
		He also disputes the notion that neoconservatives "oppose multilateralism." Neocons are indeed "wary of granting multilateral institutions (such as the United Nations) a veto over U.S. action, or joining deeply flawed international agreements (such as the land mine convention) simply for the sake of multilateral harmony," he writes.
	www.forward.com /issues/2004/04.01.02/otherwords.html (760 words)

	BW Online \| May 12, 2003 \| Where Do the Neocons Go from Here?
		Convinced that as the sole superpower, America has both the means and the manifest destiny to promote democratic reform around the globe, neocons inside and outside the Bush Administration are eager to press forward with their muscular foreign policy.
		Neocons insist that Israel should not resume negotiations until Palestinian Authority President Yassir Arafat is removed from power and Palestinian officials crack down on terrorist groups.
		Neocon impatience with that sort of diplomacy is just as evident when it comes to Old Europe and international institutions such as the U.N. that rein in U.S. power.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_19/b3832081.htm (1156 words)

	Neo-conservative - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A neo-conservative (abbreviated as neo-con or neocon) is part of a U.S. based political movement rooted in liberal Cold War anticommunism and a backlash to the social liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
		Although they attacked feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism, "neocons" often placed less emphasis on social policy issues, and many of them opposed school prayer or a ban on abortion.
		And they have succeeded in doing so to the degree that the word 'conservative' is now being applied to individuals and ideas that are, in fact, liberal (in the leftist sense), socialist, and totally undeserving of the conservative label," he complained.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Neo-conservative (1207 words)

	The War on Terror Misfired. Blame it all on the Neocons.
		The neocons are loud in their denunciations of anyone who argues that an attempt to reduce the popular resentments that inflame Muslim opinion must be an integral part of any successful counter-terrorism campaign.
		But the obligatory references to the 1930s and the neocons' obsession with Churchill illustrate how profoundly they have misconceived the nature of the threat.
		The neocons dismiss this as liberal bunk but, like their chicken-hawk president, most of them have not so much as grazed a knee in defense of their country.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0407-10.htm (1165 words)

	VDARE.com: 08/28/03 - Neocons Admit They’ve Blown It — Is The Draft Next?
		Meanwhile, the handful of neocons who got our country into this growing mess are still talking about the U.S. invading other Middle Eastern countries as part of their program to deracinate Islam.
		If you think about it, you will realize that the neocons’ war plans are taking us back to the draft.
		The alliance of neocons with white southern evangelicals is not enough to control US foreign policy.
	www.vdare.com /roberts/blown_it.htm (840 words)

	Neocons Are the Real Americans
		neocons who represent true historical American values, as they fight to win back the country they lost to the socialists a century ago.
		Perhaps America's greatest neocon heroes, and models for our own War on Terrorism, should be Republican Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst.
		Roosevelt's fame as a military commander during the 1898 war for Spanish territories propelled him into the presidency, and Hearst expanded his business empire by beating the drums of war, just as Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News is doing today.
	www.strike-the-root.com /columns/Bottoms/bottoms8.html (751 words)

	Robert Novak: Neocons vs. Rumsfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He and the other neocons do not want to be blamed for what has become a very unpopular venture in Iraq.
		Rumsfeld did name Richard Perle, one of the foremost neocon voices calling for a change of regime in Baghdad, as chairman of the part-time Defense Policy Board.
		Thus, the neocon message is that the war was no mistake but has been badly conducted.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/robertnovak/rn20041223.shtml (771 words)

	AFF's Brainwash :: Exit neocons, stage left (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Neocons, it is said, are just conservatives who understand how the real world works.
		As the paleos and the leftists who bait the 'neocons' say time and again, they are "Straussian" because they embrace the "noble lie." This is a superficial, even fraudulent read, rooted in the assumption that the "neocons" have ulterior motives and that no other ideological cadre has them.
		The final problem with the neocon approach has been the whole concept that the Middle East must become liberal and democratic or that we are inevitably and perenially the victims of Islamist terrorism.
	www.affbrainwash.com /archives/013929.php (10564 words)

	Samuel Francis examines the neocons' Straussian cabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That purpose was not so much to “deconstruct” and “expose” the neocons as to define them as the real conservative opposition, the legitimate (though deplorable and vicious) “right” against which the polemics and political struggle of the left should be directed.
		The reason the left prefers the neocon “right” to a paleo alternative is, quite simply, that the neocons are essentially of the left themselves and, thus, provide a fake opposition against which the rest of the left can shadowbox and thereby perpetuate its own political and cultural hegemony unchallenged by any authentic right.
		I have never heard of any neocon who, like Chambers and Meyer, felt the need to stay up all night every night with a loaded shotgun in case some of his former comrades and employers in the NKVD came looking for him.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/September2003/0903Francis.html (1320 words)

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