The 'genius' of neoconservatism. As expected, the debate on Monday night was long on posturing and short on specifics.
I thought Romney did a good job of sounding like a less well-informed Obama, while trying to suggest that he'd implement Obama's foreign policy better than Obama has. For his part, Obama showed a command of the issues worthy of a commander-in-chief, and worthy of someone who has done a good job of implementing President George W.
Bush's second term foreign policy agenda. But Romney's sudden lunge toward moderation raises the following obvious question, which Bob Schieffer (and the president) didn't ask: "Governor, you maintain that you're a tough-minded, smart manager who knows how to pick good people. To be fair, an awful lot of supposedly sensible Democrats supported the war too, including a lot of senior officials in the Obama administration. Nonetheless, the unsinkable resiliency of the neoconservative movement remains impressive. Which brings us back where we started. NATO summit highlights neo-con/neo-liberal overlap. San Pedro, CA - As the general election phase of the American presidential election gets underway, the recent NATO summit serves as a potent reminder of just how little difference there ultimately is between the neo-con extremists who dominated US foreign policy under George W Bush, and the neo-liberals who run just about everything in the Obama administration.
Most notably, dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans returned their medals in a mass action that recalled Operation Dewey Canyon III, in April, 1971, when more than a thousand members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War held five days of marches and demonstrations against the Vietnam War in Washington, DC, including a memorial service near the Tomb of the Unknown and a ceremony on the Capitol steps where more than 800 veterans returned their combat medals. Neocons embrace islamic terrorist group. October 23, 2007 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. During the week of October 22-26, an official announcement effuses, "The nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever - Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses. " Ringmastered by David Horowitz, this circus will be performing under the tent of something called the "Terrorism Awareness Project. " The purpose of this ballyhoolooza, we are told, is to confront the "Big Lies" of the Left regarding terrorism and militant Islam. The U.S. To make a long and bizarre story short, the MEK got its start in early 1960s Iran, helped overthrow the Shah in 1979, but quickly turned on the revolutionary government it helped bring to power.
The group's wicked political brew was on spectacular display on the old MEK flag (since abandoned), with its sickle and Kalashnikov positioned beneath a Koranic verse. The Historical Society: January 2011 Issue of Historically Speaking Online. Randall Stephens Browse the January issue of Historically Speaking on Project Muse from your college or university computer.
Leo Ribuffo's lead essay in the issue gives "Twenty Suggestions for Studying the Right Now that Studying the Right Is Trendy. " A little bit from that: There is a boom in the study of the Right, broadly conceived. Subtitles of books that not so long ago would have ended with “and the persistence of capitalist hegemony” or “and the pervasiveness of status anxiety” now end with “and the rise of conservatism.”This is the second such boom since World War II.
Neoconservatism - curators... U.S. Intellectual History: Neoconservatism and the Spirit of the Anti-Sixties. American Neoconservatism. Against Law, For Order. It’s taken decades and millions of lives, but elite opinion is starting to move against mass incarceration.
The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books ran detailed exposés on the scale and violence of the penal state. Conservative leaders like Grover Norquist have said that mass incarceration violates the principles of “fiscal responsibility, accountability, and limited government,” while GOP darlings like Mitch Daniels have tried to take the lead in state reform. Soon the common wisdom will shift from “we need to get tough on crime” to “we jail too many people for too long for the wrong reasons.” The next question is what to do about it, and here the answers are harder.
There are those that think that it’ll be fairly easy – follow European examples and decriminalize drugs, for instance. What all of these approaches take for granted is that government policy runs downhill. Neoconservative “Law and order” isn’t just the rallying cry of Southern traditionalists, however. Neoliberalism.