[Alberta's Child]

If anything, neocons tend to be concerned about feckless spending, and saddling the next generation with feckless debt.

If you have any evidence of that, I'd love to see it. You might also be surprised to find that neo-conservatives usually tend to be completely silent on adherence to Constitutional law (particularly with regard to something like the Second Amendment).

What is a fair comment, is that Neocons are not isolationist, or protectionist, and wish the lone superpower while it can, to try to fashion the planet into a better place, to the extent practicable and prudent.

I think you have an erroneous view of their agenda. They are empire-builders, pure and simple.

[Torie]

Not this neocon, although frankly I don't think anybody really knows what the second amendment means, and I have studied it with some energy. I don't know what empire building means either. What does it mean in this context? I know what it means to me, which is to make the planet and more humane and civil place, to the extent we can, and less susceptible to being the fertile swamp for the breeding of toxic agents well capable of metastasizing to places far distant. It also means trying to contain the fascistic elements in newly muscular places feeling the their oats, like China, which reminds me of Bismark's Germany, as the first course.

[CowboyJay]

"I think you have an erroneous view of their agenda. They are empire-builders, pure and simple."

Ya hit it right on the head, bub.

History shows that kingdoms fade, empires fall, alliances change.

Only truly free and independent nations have stood the test of time. Ya can't impose Democracy, and ya' can't buy peace. You can only buy time.