http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/neocons/ en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:35:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413439/posts Justin Raimondo detects yet another death of neoconservatism and yet another resurgence of non-interventionism on the right. As usual, he takes isolated examples, misinterprets them and then grossly exaggerates their importance. It is great news that many Tea Party protesters support something like a non-interventionist foreign policy. As many of them were originally Ron Paul supporters, just as I was, it makes sense that quite a few of them do support this. It would be even better news if there were any reason to believe that most of the Republican Party and conservative movement shared their foreign policy views. The... American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413439/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:35:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412612/posts For eight long years under George W. Bush, conservatives endorsed a don’t ask, don’t tell foreign policy–they did not really ask why their country was at war and Republican leaders did not tell, or bother, Americans with any of the gory details. Missions were accomplished, we fought them over there so we didn’t have to fight them here and troops were supported by simply supporting the wars they fought, with little to no dissent. But why were we fighting? What was “victory?” How many had to die? What was the cost? Conservatives did not ask-Republican politicians did not tell. But... American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412612/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400633/posts Obama Pleases the NeoconsFirst Published 2009-12-04 Because of the Iraq calamity, other elements of the neocon vision of remaking the Middle East were put on hold. But the neocons haven’t yet given up on the idea of a military strike against Iran. The neocon detachment from reality continues to pervade their wishful thinking. The reality of the disappearing US industrial base and America’s decaying infrastructure do not fit into the soaring rhetoric about US global power, says Robert Parry. President Barack Obama’s escalation of the Afghan War has upset many rank-and-file Democrats who had hoped for a more peaceful strategy,... Middle-East-Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400633/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:17:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344488/posts ... "Irving Kristol was an intellectual giant who played a major role in developing the anti-communist arguments that led to the defeat of the Soviet Union," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The Washington Times. ... ... Known as the godfather of neoconservatism, Mr. Kristol was a youthful radical who went from embracing communism in his 20s to attacking it publicly in his 30s. In subsequent years, he became an equally forceful advocate of free-market economics, including the supply-side tax cuts enacted during the Reagan administration and dismantling much of the so-called welfare state. Neoconservatism was a label originally bestowed... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344488/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343137/posts Irving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been "mugged by reality," died Friday at the Capital Hospice in Arlington. He spent much of his career in New York but had for the last two decades lived at the Watergate apartments in the District. He died of complications from lung cancer, said his son, William Kristol, the founder and editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343137/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:13:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341780/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has planned a flurry of appearances in the Washington area this weekend, an indicator of the kind of hectic schedule he's been keeping as he looks ahead to a possible presidential bid in 2012. His D.C. itinerary will be dominated by fundraisers, but Romney has planned a pair of high-profile speeches to conservative groups that are sure to draw attention: On Saturday he is slated to address the Values Voters Summit, and on Monday he'll deliver remarks to a luncheon at the Foreign Policy Initiative, a neoconservative think tank founded by William... CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341780/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:27:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326387/posts "We're All Realists Now." No. Pragmatists maybe, but not "realists." Barack Obama's election as U.S. president delighted many people, especially the self-described foreign-policy "realists" who accused his predecessor, George W. Bush, of denying reality in favor of dangerous idealism. Obama has praised the realpolitik of Bush's father, George H.W. Bush. And a White House official recently told the Wall Street Journal, "[Obama] has really kind of clicked with that old-school, end-of-the-Cold-War wise-men generation." The elder Bush's national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, called Obama's election a rejection of the younger Bush "in favor of realism." Of course foreign policy should be... Foreign Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326387/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310713/posts Click to see the video. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310713/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 18:03:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304020/posts The sale of The Weekly Standard should put paid to any lingering illusion that the neoconservative empire was anything but a Potemkin Village. Whatever happens from this point on, the news of Rupert Murdoch’s repudiation of his ugliest stepchild is as refreshing a pick-me-up as the morning’s second Bloody Mary I am enjoying, anchored off Spetzai on the Bushido with Chronicles’ incomparably hospitable columnist, Taki. The only thing needed to make my happiness complete would be for the boys of National Review to take the hint and sell out for oh, maybe $2 million. Allegedly, Murdoch sold the magazine for... Chronicles Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304020/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:03:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269701/posts FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation. Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn,... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269701/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265973/posts Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski in once again on the air after a year's absence----and has restarted her Internet radio program "American Forum." Kwiatkowski is a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties in the Pentagon and the National Security Agency. Lt Col Kwiatkowski's " American Forum" radio program includes discussions about libertarianism and the state of the economy. Lt Col Kwiatkowski's PhD in World Politics was taken at Catholic University of America. Her doctoral thesis centered on overt and covert war in Angola. She has also published two books about US policy towards... americanfreedomeadio.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265973/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 02:54:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220034/posts We knew it on Friday, when Bill Kristol praised President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, but the degree to which neoconservatives are happy with the plan is striking. “He’s definitely saying no to pulling back,” said Fred Kagan, at the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative conference today in Washington. “It was a gutsy and correct decision.” Kagan worried/predicted that Obama’s base would bristle at the plan, so “he will be counting on some significant amount of support from his political opponents.” Washington Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220034/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:41:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216416/posts I asked the boss for a reaction to the Afghan speech. He said he would have framed a few things differently, but his basic response was: "All hail Obama!" Weekly Standard Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216416/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:00:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207532/posts EXCERPT Though neocons formed a kind of Praetorian Guard around John McCain during his campaign, their truculent approach to foreign affairs sabotaged rather than strengthened McCain’s appeal. The best that Sarah Palin, a foreign-policy neocon on training wheels, could do was to offer platitudes about standing by Israel. It seems safe to say, then, that the neocon credo is ready to be put out to pasture. Or is it? One problem with this line of argument is that it’s been heard before—sometimes from the neoconservatives themselves. In 1988, after George H.W. Bush replaced Ronald Reagan, neocon lioness Midge Decter fretted,... The American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207532/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193103/posts Listening to neocon mastermind Richard Perle, there's a sense of falling down the rabbit hole. Perle was the ideological architect of the Iraq war and of the Bush doctrine of preemptive attack. But at a forum of foreign policy intellectuals, hosted by National Interest magazine, he created a fantastic world in which: 1. Perle is not a neoconservative. 2. Neoconservatives do not exist. 3. Even if neoconservatives did exist, they certainly couldn't be blamed for the disasters of the past eight years. "There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy," Perle informed the gathering. So what about the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193103/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:27:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2187440/posts A Bad Year for the Neocons Who is more Catholic than the Pope? Brian Mershon REMNANT COLUMNIST, North Carolina By all accounts, 2009 has been a challenging year for Neocon Catholics. Lamenting the spread of the Traditional Latin Mass to their own diocesan parishes since the Pope issued Summorum Pontificum July 7, 2007, the recent revelations concerning the founder of the Legion of Christ, Father Marcial Maciel, the death of Father Richard John Neuhaus, and now the dissolving of the excommunications of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), the Neocon Catholic worldview is clearly being undermined George Weigel’s recent... The Remnant http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2187440/posts#comment Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2169166/posts Rudy Giuliani analyzes the reason the Republican party is losing in recent years and what it can do to enlarge it's base. Stressing the importance of big tent politics and under-emphasizing social issues. In any case, the economy is the main reason McCain lost, but other social issues have also created a bad stereotype of Republicans in general. Crimson Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2169166/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:36:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168472/posts CLICK TO ENLARGEAny man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Winston Churchill Since Obama left the Rev. Wright and his cultic influence, I believe he has had several "come to Jesus meetings," as well as a couple of come to Bush meetings. According to Wikpedia:"Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States. Its key distinction is in international affairs, where it espouses an interventionist approach that seeks to defend what neo-conservatives deem as national interests. In... JoeClarke.Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168472/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166637/posts Neoconservatives are elated with Obama's appointments, recognizing that the new guard is very much like the old.  Some traditional conservatives were hoping that with Bush leaving office and Obama coming in, the neocons would be put out of power, but sadly, they're not going away that easily. Contrary to the public's perception of President-elect Obama as the peace candidate, he has been extremely hawkish in his appointments. The selection of Joe Biden as a running mate was a sign that the globalist and hawkish wing of the Democratic Party (where the neocons originally hailed from) was going to be strongly... thenewamerican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166637/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:41:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163978/posts Jonathan Clarke, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs looks back at the rise and fall of the neocons, who encouraged George Bush to invade Iraq.With the Bush Administration about to recede into history, a widely asked question is whether the neoconservative philosophy that underpinned its major foreign policy decisions will likewise vanish from the scene. The answer seems likely to be Yes. But the epitaph of neoconservatism has been written before - prematurely, as it turned out, in the 1980s. Having been apparently headed for extinction at the end of the Reagan Administration a... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163978/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:53:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159994/posts President Bush will leave office with an approval rating of under 30 percent, and the Republican Party is not faring much better. In the past two elections, it has shed more than 50 House seats and more than a dozen Senate seats. The conservative label, though, does not appear to have taken much of a beating. On Election Day 2008, exit polls showed that more voters still identify themselves as conservatives than as liberals. Conservatives can thus spare themselves the kind of re-branding liberals felt compelled to attempt earlier in the decade when they dubbed themselves “progressives.” Precisely what is... DC Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159994/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159327/posts The rise of the neoconservatives within the GOP has not only discredited the Grand Old Party but tarnished the image of conservatism. The Republican party suffered an overwhelming electoral defeat this past November. The establishment media were all too quick to proclaim that conservatism is dead and we're now at the dawn of a liberal age. Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), wrote in Time magazine that we are facing the dawn of a "new liberal order." In making this proclamation, Beinart overlooks the fact that the public was not voting... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159327/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:38:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2139547/posts I have Been seeing so much Post Mortem on the Decline of the Republican Party. Our POST ELECTION First Task was to Identify the ROOT PROBLEM...we agree that it was the RINO Philosophy. Next Since we will have to go out and replace these RINOS with people of true Conservative Principles . Now It is time to identify those RINO's who are Elected to Office be it Federal, State, County and City elected Officials. Appointed, Judicial, The RINO's in Media,Radio Talkers TV, Cable, Print, and Blogs... We need to Identify the RINO talking heads who POP up everywhere when a... My Cerebellum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2139547/posts#comment Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:54:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138621/posts The Death of Neoconservatism by David Donadio November 20, 2008 American presidential elections are often best read as verdicts on the administrations that precede them, and in that light, Barack Obama’s victory on November 5 marks the long-overdue death of neoconservatism. I doubt the Democrats are going to build an everlasting majority with disaffected conservative realists, or even hang on to those realists forever – let’s wait a few months until the showroom shine fades from Obama’s administration, or just a few minutes if it turns out the Clintons really are going to enjoy a third term over at the... americasfuture.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138621/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:07:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136087/posts November 21, 2008, 1:00 a.m. What Went Wrong?Well, it wasnÂ’t conservatism. By Victor Davis Hanson Conservatives have already in the three weeks after the election come up with three competing explanations — and remedies — for their congressional defeats and the victory of the relatively unknown Barack Obama. Post-election voting patterns and statistical data can be interpreted in various ways to support any of the following three exegeses, which I understand as being roughly the following: It was a sort of fluke. Party faithful will shrug that almost everything conspired this year against the conservative brand: two wars; the... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136087/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:27:36 GMT