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Originally Posted by jj2me
... my guess is that there aren't that many people in the U.S with neocon sentiments. Maybe in the tens of thousands? And yet they took over the country's foreign policy. Like what you see in the movies or TV shows depicting a U.S. Govt. coup. Bush didn't seem to be one of them, just fell under their spell. Luckily, they ran into too much failure to take it up another notch..
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Y'know, jj2me, that is one of the most perceptive posts I've read about Bush. I think that you are correct that Bush was not, initially, one of them.
The so-called neocon position actually used to be the majority liberal position, until Kennedy/LBJ went in to Vietnam. And it was the Republicans who had the isolationist view that we should stay out of other people's countries. But when the left wing developed it's own version of isolationism, the interventionist faction of the Democratic party migrated to the Republican party and became neocons.
I think that up until 9/11, the neocons did not have a whole lot of influence. But after 9/11, it seemed obvious that if we wanted to deal with the terrorists, we'd have to deal with the nations that gave them cover. The only cogent response came from the neocons.
Whether their running into "too much failure" was a lucky thing or not remains to be seen. I suppose it depends on whether you think that we need to continue engaging militarily with the nations providing cover for terrorism.
Now, how to tie this into eBook readers...? Do neocons use Kindles?