IRAQ AND THE NEOCONS' PSEUDO-REALITY

Chronicles Magazine ^ | 9/02/2002 | Srdja Trifkovic

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I think the author might get a better response if he just confined himself to the facts of the present case, rather than indulge in the black and white contrast of evil neo-cons and loyal paleos. I don't think much of the neo-cons and their promotion of war, but if they are Marxists, then pretty much everyone is a Marxist or "Marxism" has no meaning. To be sure, Irving Kristol was a Marxist once, but whatever's wrong with the younger ones, it's not true that they have a Communist past and I don't see any specific intellectual descent of neo-con ideology from Marxism. If you start throwing words around like that, it's hard to see how the paleos with their dislike of contemporary capitalism and the present US role in the world could escape being labeled Marxist either.

The paleos may have some good ideas and maybe they're right about the war, but until they stop ritually trashing and distorting our history they deserved to get slammed hard every time they do. I notice that Trfkovic didn't bother to say how wonderful the Confederacy was, so maybe he's capable of learning.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I just wanted to thank both of you for helping me learn something today.