tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646794084908390926.post6193427195826012889..comments2023-10-28T03:20:06.617-05:00Comments on In Defense of the Constitution: Not Necessarily a Neocon If...Darylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17188962844511245404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646794084908390926.post-90552362592099619972010-03-11T12:46:24.721-06:002010-03-11T12:46:24.721-06:00Your comments are dead on. You capture exactly wha...Your comments are dead on. You capture exactly what I feel are the problems with misusing "neocon" as just another smear word. <br /><br />I'll have to check out the book. <br /><br />Thanks again for your insightful comments.Darylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17188962844511245404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646794084908390926.post-21824730658495447682010-03-11T12:42:17.916-06:002010-03-11T12:42:17.916-06:00I just read both essays on the neocons. Great wor...I just read both essays on the neocons. Great work. <br /><br />I too was an Iraq war supporter until right around the 2004 elections. I began reading Pat Buchanan, which made me receptive to Ron Paul in 2007. <br /><br />It's good to point out that every interventionist is not necessarily a neocon. Some are just GOP hacks. <br /><br />A neoconservative has a specific agenda and a specific philosophy which is based on a specific cultural in experience in America, mostly, the anti-Semitism faced by Jews in the early-to-mid 20th century New York. But even then, people like Dick Cheney prove that the neoconservative movement is more than merely a Jewish one. <br /><br />Using the label "neocon" too much also devalues the term and gets us in trouble. Even though the term has become more mainstream, the fact that a lot of the true blue neoconservatives are Jewish opens the way for charges of anti-Semitism. <br /><br />And using the term too much just makes it another smear word, the way the neocons use "liberal" or "anti-Semite" or "isolationist" to assail anyone who questions their agenda. <br /><br />Jacob Heilbrunn's book "They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons" is a good place to start for an education about this movement.Carl Wicklanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743503122650895906noreply@blogger.com