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z@z.com
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What is a neoconservative?
#1828270 - 08/18/03 10:52 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I keep seeing that label tossed around (here and other places), but I'm not really sure that anyone really agrees on a definintion. So what exactly is a neoconservative?
I'm especially looking for Malachi to answer this as he has called every right leaning person on this board a neoconservative.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: What is a neoconservative? [Re: z@z.com]
#1828281 - 08/18/03 11:01 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just another term for asshole. Oh, Malachi doesn't know what he's 'talking' about.
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z@z.com
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Re: What is a neoconservative? [Re: Autonomous]
#1828288 - 08/18/03 11:03 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Autonomous said: Oh, Malachi doesn't know what he's 'talking' about.
I know, but I think his response will give me a good laugh.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: What is a neoconservative? [Re: z@z.com]
#1828318 - 08/18/03 11:25 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The term 'neo-con' originally mean an ex-leftist, mostly those disillusioned by the American's left's support for the soviet union.
Recently it has been bandied about as a catch-all for pro-war conservative, especially Jewish ones.
Here is a good article on the subject: http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg052103.asp
Here's another great one from 3 years ago, before most people had ever heard the term: http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg061600.html
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Re: What is a neoconservative? [Re: wingnutx]
#1828392 - 08/19/03 12:16 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah, it's basically just a dirty word (like con isn't...) but I like the reactionary connotation.
unclean people, one and all.
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