That’s how you see our attempt to free the Iraqi people from tyranny, and going after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan? Pretty simplistic. And I suppose “Neocon” = Jew? It’s a good thing your candidate has such a small following...God preserve us from such crackpots. Yours is a very naive and dangerous viewpoint.
No, I don’t believe “neocon” is synonymous with “Jew.” Some neocons are Jews, but we are discussing Newt Gingrich here, who isn’t Jewish. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were not Jews.
The people who support endless war foreign wars in the Middle East tend to fit a very peculiar profile: the vast majority of them are Baby Boomers in the 50s and 60s and are either retired or nearing retirement.
The people who oppose the neocon foreign wars (i.e., Ron Paul supporters) are overwhelmingly the Millennials who have to (1) fight those wars and (2) spend the rest of their lives paying for them.
Guess what? Millennials don’t think it is a good idea to squander trillions of dollars to bring women’s rights and democracy to Islamic backwaters while over 11 million Mexicans and other foreigners have been allowed to invade our own country.
They clearly see that there is a connection between taking that much money out of the productive economy and investing it in debt to China and the terrible economy that was created by Bush and Obama.
The people who support neocon foreign wars are living in a bubble world where Ron Paul is the “crackpot” on that issue - the truth of the matter is that the rest of the country and especially independent voters and Millennials perceive them as the crackpots.
A crackpot idea is invading Iraq to take out Saddam’s non-existent WMD while letting North Korea develop real nuclear weapons and allowing Pakistan to give shelter to Osama bin Laden for almost a decade.
How about we start by freeing ourselves? Because this hunt for terrorists has reached the point where under the new FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act, the USA is now being declared "part of the battlefield":
Sen. Lindsey Graham supported the bill saying : “The homeland is part of the battlefield, and people can be held without trial whether an American citizen or not.”
That does not make me feel safer. It makes me angry that we as a people have turned into such a band of wimps looking for terrorists under beds, that we are surrendering our freedom and our country to an out of control tyranny that makes everything else pale by comparison.