The Neocon Conspiracy

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When he falls in love with the deeply religious Elizabeth Whalen, he must make a decision. Will he choose a life with the woman he loves or risk everything to expose those who have put an end to democracy in America? Lees de eerste pagina's. Toon meer Toon minder. Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy — conspiracy theories have a long and unhappy history in the United States and elsewhere.

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Prominent examples include assorted plots involving Freemasons, preposterous claims about secret Jewish influence such as the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious Czarist-era forgery , or the claims that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance, that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA, or that the U. Conspiracy theories take many forms, but they generally have several common features.

First , they often claim to expose the secret machinations of a small group of individuals, acting to accomplish some nefarious but largely-hidden purpose. Second, they attribute to the designated group vast and far-reaching powers, including a mysterious ability to control rather than simply influence a wide array of institutions. Yet a conspiracy theory as opposed to a careful institutional analysis never identifies the precise mechanisms by which this alleged control is achieved and normally fails to provide concrete evidence to justify its far-reaching claims.

In virtually all cases, a good conspiracy theory implies that what you think you know about the world is dead wrong, usually because the people responsible for the conspiracy have managed to convince you that up is down and black is white. They also tend to portray the world as far more organized and consistent than it really is: To do this, conspiracy theorists often squeeze a host of unrelated phenomena into some larger pattern, on the basis of unproven and far-fetched connections.

Again, Glenn Beck is the contemporary master of this sort of dubious reasoning. Indeed, the absence of hard evidence can be interpreted as support for the theory, because an all-powerful but secret cabal would have every reason to cover its tracks and obviously be adept at doing so. So the less hard evidence you can find, the more it proves the theory! Policy analysts noted that the Bush Doctrine as stated in the NSC document had a strong resemblance to recommendations presented originally in a controversial Defense Planning Guidance draft written during by Paul Wolfowitz , during the first Bush administration.

The Bush Doctrine was greeted with accolades by many neoconservatives. When asked whether he agreed with the Bush Doctrine, Max Boot said he did and that "I think [Bush is] exactly right to say we can't sit back and wait for the next terrorist strike on Manhattan. We have to go out and stop the terrorists overseas. We have to play the role of the global policeman. And, I think, it's very much to Bush's credit that he's gotten serious about dealing with it.

The danger is that we're going to do too little". John McCain , who was the Republican candidate for the United States presidential election , endorsed continuing the second Iraq War , "the issue that is most clearly identified with the neoconservatives". The New York Times reported further that his foreign policy views combined elements of neoconservatism and the main competing conservative opinion, pragmatism , also known as realism: Among [McCain's advisers] are several prominent neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan [ Barack Obama campaigned for the Democratic nomination during by attacking his opponents, especially Hillary Clinton , for originally endorsing Bush's Iraq-war policies.

After Donald Trump became the Republican presidential nominee in , many neo-conservatives joined Never Trump , some of the neo-conservatives even changed their political stance to support Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The Never Trump movement failed after Trump was elected as president. Some of the neo-conservatives such as John R. Bolton joined the Trump administration , while many of the neo-conservatives continue to oppose the Trump presidency. During the early s, Socialist Michael Harrington was one of the first to use "neoconservative" in its modern meaning. They still endorsed the welfare state , but not necessarily in its contemporary form.

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Irving Kristol remarked that a neoconservative is a " liberal mugged by reality ", one who became more conservative after seeing the results of liberal policies. Kristol also distinguished three specific aspects of neoconservatism from previous types of conservatism: During January at the end of President George W.

Bush's second term in office, Jonathan Clarke, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs , proposed the following as the "main characteristics of neoconservatism": In foreign policy, the neoconservatives' main concern is to prevent the development of a new rival. Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.

For its opponents it is a distinct political ideology that emphasizes the blending of military power with Wilsonian idealism, yet for its supporters it is more of a 'persuasion' that individuals of many types drift into and out of. Regardless of which is more correct, it is now widely accepted that the neo-conservative impulse has been visible in modern American foreign policy and that it has left a distinct impact".

Neoconservatives claim the "conviction that communism was a monstrous evil and a potent danger". Neoconservatism first developed during the late s as an effort to oppose the radical cultural changes occurring within the United States. He noted that the stress on foreign affairs "emerged after the New Left and the counterculture had dissolved as convincing foils for neoconservatism [ Neoconservative foreign policy is a descendant of so-called Wilsonian idealism. Neoconservatives endorse democracy promotion by the U.

They criticized the United Nations and detente with the Soviet Union. On domestic policy , they endorse a welfare state , like European and Canadian conservatives and unlike American conservatives. According to Norman Podhoretz , "'the neo-conservatives dissociated themselves from the wholesale opposition to the welfare state which had marked American conservatism since the days of the New Deal' and [ The main protagonists on the side of autocracy will not be the petty dictatorships of the Middle East theoretically targeted by the Bush doctrine.

They will be the two great autocratic powers, China and Russia, which pose an old challenge not envisioned within the new 'war on terror' paradigm.

Their reactions to the 'color revolutions' in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan were hostile and suspicious, and understandably so. Might not the successful liberalization of Ukraine, urged and supported by the Western democracies, be but the prelude to the incorporation of that nation into NATO and the European Union — in short, the expansion of Western liberal hegemony? In July , Joe Klein wrote in Time that today's neoconservatives are more interested in confronting enemies than in cultivating friends.

He questioned the sincerity of neoconservative interest in exporting democracy and freedom, saying: In February , Andrew Sullivan wrote he no longer took neoconservatism seriously because its basic tenet was defense of Israel: The closer you examine it, the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right.

That's the conclusion I've been forced to these last few years. And to insist that America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into But America is not Israel.

And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses. While neoconservatism is concerned primarily with foreign policy, there is also some discussion of internal economic policies. Neoconservatism generally endorses free markets and capitalism , favoring supply-side economics , but it has several disagreements with classical liberalism and fiscal conservatism: Irving Kristol states that neocons are more relaxed about budget deficits and tend to reject the Hayekian notion that the growth of government influence on society and public welfare is "the road to serfdom".

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Further, neoconservative ideology stresses that while free markets do provide material goods in an efficient way, they lack the moral guidance human beings need to fulfill their needs. Morality can be found only in tradition, they say and contrary to libertarianism markets do pose questions that cannot be solved solely by economics. Many moderate conservatives oppose neoconservative policies and have sharply negative views on it.

The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order , [98] characterized the neoconservatives at that time as uniting around three common themes:. Starting during the s, disputes concerning Israel and public policy contributed to a conflict with paleoconservatives.

Pat Buchanan terms neoconservatism "a globalist , interventionist , open borders ideology ". What make neocons most dangerous are not their isolated ghetto hang-ups, like hating Germans and Southern whites and calling everyone and his cousin an anti-Semite, but the leftist revolutionary fury they express. He has also argued that domestic equality and the exportability of democracy are points of contention between them.

Responding to a question about neoconservatives in , William F. Critics have argued that since the founders of neo-conservatism included ex- Trotskyists , Trotskyist traits continue to characterize neo-conservative ideologies and practices. Wald, [] who had discussed Trotskyism in his history of " the New York intellectuals ". The charge that neoconservativism is related to Leninism has also been made. Francis Fukuyama identified neoconservatism with Leninism during Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States.

Neoconservatism, as both a political symbol and a body of thought, has evolved into something I can no longer support". The term "neoconservative" may be used pejoratively by self-described paleoconservatives , Democrats , liberals , progressives , realists , or libertarians. Critics take issue with neoconservatives' support for interventionistic foreign policy. Critics from the left take issue with what they characterize as unilateralism and lack of concern with international consensus through organizations such as the United Nations.

Critics from both the left and right have assailed neoconservatives for the role Israel plays in their policies on the Middle East. Neoconservatives respond by describing their shared opinion as a belief that national security is best attained by actively promoting freedom and democracy abroad as in the democratic peace theory through the endorsement of democracy, foreign aid and in certain cases military intervention.

This is different from the traditional conservative tendency to endorse friendly regimes in matters of trade and anti-communism even at the expense of undermining existing democratic systems. Republican Congressman Ron Paul has been a longtime critic of neoconservativism as an attack on freedom and the Constitution, including an extensive speech on the House floor addressing neoconservative beginnings and how neoconservatism is neither new nor conservative.

John McGowan , professor of humanities at the University of North Carolina , states after an extensive review of neoconservative literature and theory that neoconservatives are attempting to build an American Empire , seen as successor to the British Empire , its goal being to perpetuate a " Pax Americana ".

As imperialism is largely considered unacceptable by the American media, neoconservatives do not articulate their ideas and goals in a frank manner in public discourse. Frank neoconservatives like Robert Kaplan and Niall Ferguson recognize that they are proposing imperialism as the alternative to liberal internationalism.

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Yet both Kaplan and Ferguson also understand that imperialism runs so counter to American's liberal tradition that it must While Ferguson, the Brit, laments that Americans cannot just openly shoulder the white man's burden, Kaplan the American, tells us that "only through stealth and anxious foresight" can the United States continue to pursue the "imperial reality [that] already dominates our foreign policy", but must be disavowed in light of "our anti-imperial traditions, and The Bush administration, justifying all of its actions by an appeal to "national security", has kept as many of those actions as it can secret and has scorned all limitations to executive power by other branches of government or international law.

In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, charges of "dual loyalty" were leveled against Jewish neoconservatives from across the political spectrum. A heated debate ensued and the controversy continues into the present due to concerns over neoconservatives stance toward Iran. Iraq policy, on the right and the left, have drawn accusations of anti-Semitism for asserting that certain members of Bush's administration namely Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board; and Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy have dual loyalty — interests in both the United States and Israel.

Patrick Buchanan issued a statement in a cover article for The American Conservative: We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon". Jeffery Goldberg of the Atlantic interviewed Joe Klein in My friend and former colleague Joe Klein has made himself quite the figure of controversy over the past few weeks. First, he suggested that Jewish neoconservatives have "divided loyalties;" then… he argued that McCain has surrounded himself with "Jewish neoconservatives" who want war with Iran.

Listen, people can vote whichever way they want, for whatever reason they want. I just don't want to see policy makers who make decisions on the basis of whether American policy will benefit Israel or not. In some cases, you want to provide protection for Israel certainly, but you don't want to go to war with Iran. When Jennifer Rubin or Abe Foxman calls me antisemitic, they're wrong. I think these people are following very perversely extremist policies and I really did believe that it was time for mainstream Jews to stand up and say, "They don't represent us, they don't represent Israel.

Mickey Kaus of Slate noted that "Max Boot, Pete Wehner, Jennifer Rubin, Paul Mirengoff and Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League all wrote confidently outraged responses to Klein's raising of the "divided loyalties" and went on to opine that "[i]t should be possible to publicly debate whether some "Jewish neoconservatives," among others, too easily convinced themselves that America's and Israel's interests happily coincided in the prosecution of the war". As I've documented previously, the very same right-wing advocates who scream "anti-semitism" at anyone, such as Klein, who raises the issue of devotion to Israel themselves constantly argue that American Jews do — and should — cast their votes in American elections based upon what is best for Israel.

They nakedly trot out the "dual loyalty" argument in order to manipulate American Jews to vote Republican in U. David Brooks derided the "fantasies" of "full-mooners fixated on a He rebutted those beliefs, saying that "people labeled neocons con is short for 'conservative' and neo is short for 'Jewish' travel in widely different circles". Barry Rubin argued that the neoconservative label is used as an antisemitic pejorative: First, 'neo-conservative' is a codeword for Jewish.

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As antisemites did with big business moguls in the nineteenth century and Communist leaders in the twentieth, the trick here is to take all those involved in some aspect of public life and single out those who are Jewish. The implication made is that this is a Jewish-led movement conducted not in the interests of all the, in this case, American people, but to the benefit of Jews, and in this case Israel. The list includes public people identified as personally neoconservative at an important time or a high official with numerous neoconservative advisers, such as George W.

Bush and Dick Cheney.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Necon. This article is about political movement in the United States. Brooks Pat Buchanan William F. James Burnham George H.

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