http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/neocon/ en-us Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:01:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066432/posts Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man. From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 -- pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in... Human Events.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066432/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:01:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048146/posts Batman is a neocon By Sharon McGovern In conservative circles there is a tradition of wailing and gnashing teeth over American movie culture. It’s well deserved. There is much about the industry that is despicable, movies are dauntingly complex to make, and most of what passes as film criticism—which might serve as a corrective or guide—is degraded and lame. It’s a near miracle that decent movies are made at all, let alone any that would please the notoriously fussy and uptight Right. The folly of the war in Iraq has been a defining theorem in Hollywood for the past few... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048146/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041994/posts Why has Republicanism failed? Republicanism has failed and will fail because of single of idea which America under President Bush has become fixated upon. The new idea and hegemony of Bush and America is the realization of freedom. It has been American’s claim to an absolute idea predicated on the absolute strength of such an idea in the world for other regimes to become and emulate. Is not” You are either with us or against us” a favorite slogan of this moment in history? Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041994/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:23:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023694/posts Perhaps because I'm a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born conservative, I look at John McCain, with all his flaws, and still think that he's a pretty darn good candidate for our time. More importantly, I think that Obama is a very dangerous candidate precisely because of the time in which we live. I therefore find disturbing the number of conservative purists who insist that they're going to teach John McCain -- and everyone else, dammit! -- a lesson, either by sitting out the election or by throwing their vote away on a third party candidate. This is a kind... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023694/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 20:42:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2017380/posts "Frankly, I can be wrong, but I do not think that America can carry to the presidency a candidate as on the left as Barack Obama." Norman Podhoretz, May 14, 2008 Check the link for the complete interview on Iraq, Iran, the WoT, neoconservatism and US presidential elections. My interview of Podhoretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2017380/posts#comment Sat, 17 May 2008 15:59:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013344/posts SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Kaplan, in a recent publication, the US National Defense University described the Iraq War as a "major debacle." According to the latest statistics, 500 insurgent attacks are still taking place each week. Still, you are convinced that there is a "learning curve" for the US Army in Iraq. What exactly has been learned? Kaplan: One attack is one too many. But a while ago there were 500 attacks a day. So empirically, the situation has improved -- whether measured in terms of Iraqi cilivans killed or American soldiers attacked, insurgents captured or the number of intelligence tip-offs.... Der Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013344/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 00:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005365/posts From our earliest days, Americans have supported the promotion of democracy around the world, often by force and without undue heed to international institutions. William Henry Seward, a founder of the Republican Party and Lincoln's secretary of State, argued that it was America's mission to lead the way "to the universal restoration of power to the governed." A generation earlier, statesman Henry Clay championed the idea that America had the "duty to share with the rest of mankind this most precious gift" of liberty. Both world wars, Korea and Vietnam would be inconceivable without accounting for America's dedication to the... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005365/posts#comment Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:02:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998910/posts ...Which brings us back to the question of whether “neoconservatives” dragged the United States into war in 2003. As a purely practical matter, the suggestion has always presented a puzzle. How did they do it? Few people considered George W. Bush a neoconservative before 2003, or Dick Cheney, or Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, who actually made a point in the 2000 campaign of saying that she was a “realpolitiker.” Then there was the matter of public opinion. The war was, as American wars go, immensely popular, both before and immediately following its launch—more popular than the wars in Kosovo... World Affairs Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998910/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:26:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974036/posts America’s war on terror has come full circle. By pledging his support of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia, President George W. Bush has sanctioned the genocide of thousands of Serbian Christians in the Balkans and the creation, thanks to al Qaeda, of a radical Muslim state at the doorway to Europe. After announcing their independence from Serbia on February 16, thousands of ethnic Albanians (Muslims) took to the streets waving American flags and singing patriotic songs. While the national press provided glowing coverage of these demonstrations as proof that the “Kosovars” were adamantly pro-America, few media outlets took notice... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974036/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:03:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930896/posts BY CLIFFORD MAY As America's ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton was the White House's most effective defender. Now, as an ex-diplomat, he has become among the administration's toughest critics. But he critiques from the right, not the left, which probably explains why the elite media are not eager to focus on what he has to say. The son of a Baltimore firefighter who attended Yale Law School on scholarship, Bolton combines a combative nature with a keen intellect. He is a conservative without the prefix - neither neo-con (he's skeptical about nation-building and democracy promotion) nor paleo-con... Ocala.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930896/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:11:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1891366/posts The most popular political slur of our time is the term “neocon.” Politically engaged people of several ideologies use the term regularly and although they mean different things when they use it, the term is always intended to be an insult, like the terms “neo-Nazi,” and “fascist,” also favorite slurs of the same ilk using “neocon.” I was first called a “neocon” by known Democratic Socialists upset by my writings in favor of America’s founding principles, Life, individual Liberty and the right to pursue Happiness in a free market society where all things are possible through individual achievement and reward.... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1891366/posts#comment Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:00:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879275/posts Like most Toogood Reports readers, I observed this year's battles within the conservative ranks with profound discomfort. In my mind, there are far too many real enemies out there to waste time and print fighting one another. It seems that the world of conservatism has been split up between the "conservatives" and the "paleo-conservatives" or between the "conservatives" and the "neo-conservatives." Both sides present themselves as the bona fide article and the other side as the one in need of a prefix. Personally, I just want to spit up this strife the same way the bleachers of Wrigley Field do... FreeRepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879275/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:47:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876551/posts Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama is taking heat from liberals and conservatives alike for his comment that he wouldn't hesitate to send U.S. troops into Pakistan to capture or kill al Qaeda leaders. Actually, it's the best thing we've heard yet from the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois. "I understand that [Pakistan President Pervez] Musharraf has his own challenges," Mr. Obama said in a speech Wednesday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. "But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike... OpinionJournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876551/posts#comment Sun, 5 Aug 2007 04:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875907/posts It's no wonder that sensible people just shake their heads and wonder what's wrong with the extremists of the far left when they come up with such off the wall nonsense and then try to pass it off as real political analysis. It just makes people who have even the slightest clue about what is really going on in the world double over with laughter. Such is the case with today's comedic attempt at political forecasting by nut in residence Ed Garvey of the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times. Columnist Garvey, in true nutroots fashion, thinks he has hit on the... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875907/posts#comment Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:21:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829002/posts Barack Lieberman? Democratic NeoconsPresident Kennedy once described his gift for rhetoric as the ability to "mobilize the English language and send it into battle." In a speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Senator Barack Obama employed the same language of American value promotion that Kennedy used to inspire a generation to government service. His rejection of the "notion that the American moment has passed" along with belief that "America is the last, best hope of Earth," stands in stark contrast to the defeatism prevalent in the modern Democratic Party.Obama's Monday night foreign policy speech is more than just... Techcentral Station http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829002/posts#comment Sat, 5 May 2007 23:37:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1822866/posts University Of Manchester 24 April 2007 New find reveals macabre tale of 400-year-old ‘neo-con’ Boxes in a Spanish nunnery containing documents which lay barely noticed for hundreds of years have given a unique insight into the gruesome life and times of one the first female missionaries to Britain. Luisa de Carvajal’s writings also helped historian Dr Glyn Redworth from The University of Manchester to discover new evidence confirming that a Gunpowder Plotter executed in 1606 was probably innocent. Dr Redworth, who is based at the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, is the first historian to examine hundreds of letters,... Alpha Galileo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1822866/posts#comment Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:28:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820866/posts THE American legal system has rediscovered the virtue of one of the most ancient forms of punishment—public humiliation. Prostitutes' “Johns” can now have their names aired on television. Mail thieves can find themselves wearing a sandwichboard giving full details of their crime. And people who deface Nativity scenes can end up parading through town accompanied by a donkey. And neoconservatives? These too, it seems, are now being subjected to a grand exercise in public humiliation. Paul Wolfowitz is hanging on to his job at the World Bank by his fingernails. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a Wolfowitz protégé, is facing prison; Douglas... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820866/posts#comment Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:08:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804639/posts Whether or not the neocons are ready to face it, their moment has passed. At the Defense Department, ...Donald Rumsfeld has been replaced by Robert M. Gates, a member of the Iraq Study Group and of the realist school associated with the previous President Bush. Over at the State Department, ...Condi Rice is returning to her realist roots and taking charge of foreign policy. She has adopted gingerly some of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, ...embracing shuttle diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even raising the possibility of conversation with Syria and Iran. She has empowered career diplomats... slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804639/posts#comment Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:59:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804214/posts Sensing Shift in Bush Policy, Another Hawk Leaves By DAVID E. SANGER Published: March 21, 2007 WASHINGTON, March 20 — Among the hawks in the Bush administration, Robert Joseph long occupied a special perch. Robert Joseph, an arms control expert, is the latest hawk to leave an administration that many conservatives say has lost its clarity of mission. As the architect of much of the administration’s strategy for countering nuclear proliferation, he helped engineer the decision to exit the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, worked secretly to squeeze Libya to give up its nuclear weapons program, and created a loose consortium of... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1804214/posts#comment Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:21:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800523/posts Fifty years ago Edgar Smith shattered the rural serenity of northern Bergen County when he bludgeoned a 15-year-old girl to death with a baseball bat and a rock.  The March 1957 crime changed Ramsey forever and began a strange odyssey that is still taxing the judicial system today.Smith was sentenced to death -- then won his freedom with the help of William F. Buckley. But he was soon back behind bars after he kidnapped and stabbed a California woman.  Now, the 73-year-old killer is again up for parole.  "I'll do anything I need to do to keep him in prison,"... NorthJersey.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800523/posts#comment Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:34:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757773/posts The neo-conservative dream faded in 2006. The ambitions proclaimed when the neo-cons' mission statement "The Project for the New American Century" was declared in 1997 have turned into disappointment and recriminations as the crisis in Iraq has grown. [snip] The neo-conservatives were called that because they sought to re-establish what they felt were true conservative values in the Republican Party and the United States. They wanted to stop what they felt were the isolationist tendencies that had developed under President Clinton, and even under the pragmatic President George Bush senior. They saw the war in Iraq as their big chance... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757773/posts#comment Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741146/posts "...So, is neoconservatism dead? Far from it. Neoconservative ideas have been vindicated again and again on a string of major issues, including the Cold War, Bosnia and NATO expansion. It is the war in Iraq that has made "neocon" a dirty word, either because Bush's team woefully mismanaged the war or because the war (which neocons supported) was misconceived. But even if the invasion of Iraq proves to have been a mistake, that would not mean that the neoconservative belief in democracy as an antidote to troubles in the Middle East is wrong, nor would it confirm that neoconservatism's combination... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741146/posts#comment Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:51:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738248/posts WASHINGTON — President Bush's nomination of Robert Gates to be secretary of defense and other recent administration moves have raised concerns and even open disdain among some members of the "neo-conservative" wing of the Republican Party, the president's most ardent war supporters. The neo-cons say installing Gates, a career CIA analyst who served as the agency's director for two years under President George H.W. Bush, takes the administration one step closer toward repudiation of the once hailed "Bush Doctrine." See rest at link Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738248/posts#comment Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:53:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731871/posts It's blocked, but here is the URL - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612 Vanity Fair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731871/posts#comment Sat, 4 Nov 2006 00:30:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685938/posts The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is a more centrist element of today’s Democratic Party. After Sen. Lieberman’s primary defeat last week, I decided to go to the DLC website and see how the centrist Democrats were reacting to their defeat as well as the victory of the far left. There wasn’t a canned response at that time. I had hoped that the DLC would have prepared both win and lose positions in advance, but apparently the party just can’t figure out how to pander to their base of pacifists, appeasers, geo-political procrastinators, Bush-haters, socialists etc. while at the same time... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685938/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:47:46 GMT