Soren wrote on Dec 25^th, 2010 at 10:36pm:


Prematurely? My dear fellow, you betray yourself. A neoconservative doesn't necessarily want democracy. He wants United States hegemony.

Idealists want democracy. Neocons want strong leaders that carry big sticks (and don't talk softly). Only the most vapid neocons believe in democracy. I think they prefer the term "republic," but one most favourable to US corporate interests.

Sadly, my boy, Sir Reggie, Mr Kunt and the Moscow embassy are no longer in business. However, the Project for a New American Century would welcome you into the fold.

Is it still going?

You're welcome, Mazda. I must say, those Moscow Embassy days were something to remember. A clear enemy, a moral cause, the forces of niceness and meanness neatly aligned and counterbalanced.

Your neocon longs for those days. Ah, Mustapha Kunt, that dirty double-dealing dunce. At least we knew who he was dealing with during the Cold War.

Then Fukayama had to come along and announce it dead. Can you believe it? Thousands of years of Hegelian dialectics, generations and ages of struggle, thesis - antithesis - synthesis, until the telos of all human history came to culminate in the liberal democracy of the good old US of A.

But, you ask, how could it survive without an enemy? How could the biggest military power in human history carry on without a war?

Well, if you believe the likes of neocons like Irving Kristol, the US needed to create one - and not necessarily a real one - just one that the public would believe in. And one evil enough to send in the bombers. The "evil empire," the "axis of evil..."

This is the central duplicity of neoconservatism, an ideology whose hubris begged it to fall on its own sword. How can a freemarket doctrine that, on the face of it, preaches peace (Thomas Friedman's "no two countries with a McDonalds will ever go to war with each other") exist alongside the US's economic pump-primer, the US military, a force deployed whenever the US finds itself in recession and economic downturn?

The answer lies solely in rhetoric, a kind of Fox News-led Doublethink bought, sold and consumed in vast quantities by your neocon, a delusion so strong that it requires an energy that could blitz cities with its psychic denial.

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. And last - but not least:

Ignorance is Strength.

This is the essence of neoconservatism: a strong nation state (the US), with a strong executive leader (the President), a monotheistic God (Judeo-Christian, please), and a clear, present and - if necessary - manufactured enemy (the Ayotollah, Norriega, Saddam, Osama; pick who you like).

A finger alone may break, but when you use a fist...

Sound familiar?

Neoconservatism was the Joos' answer to Fascism. And the neocons love Israel, they just adore it. It's the neocon's Prussia. Or Sudetenland.

Remind you of the views of anyone on this board?

The 'all cultures/races/religions/societies are good' crowd is obviously lying. If they themselves were made refugees and had to send their children somewhere out of Australia- they wouldn't send them to Asia or Africa or the Middle East. They would want the best for tgheir own children so they would send them to North Western Europe or North America or NZ. Noone would send his/her children to China, India, Syria, Iran, Dubai, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, or any of the other 'rich tapestry of life' places the multiculturalists are so busy validating all the time.