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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (98925)2/6/2005 2:26:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793725
 
Conservative thought has long rated the notion of "root causes" -- explaining antisocial behavior as a consequence of social conditions -- as a major heresy. Neoconservatives have especially enjoyed burning witches over this doctrinal deviation. This makes it all the more remarkable that a president thought to be in the thrall of neocons should sink so eloquently into deep doctrinal error

This is hogwash, and it's quite alarming that someone as smart as Kinsley seems to have actually convinced himself that it's a 180 degree turnabout from neoconservatism to believe that tyranny begets terrorism (or at least, he chooses to look as if he believes it. I'm not sure which is worse). This is erasing genuine neocon arguments from human memory, and replacing them with straw men slogans about "evil doers".

If you go back to 2001 and examine the actual arguments of a Bill Kristol or a Richard Perle (just to take two prominent examples), you will see that shaking up the destructive 'stability' of the Middle East and dragging it into the modern world with at least one functioning Arab democracy to act as a model was always at the core of their arguments. Always. This was a "root cause" argument that neocons always supported - it was the "why do they hate us? It's our fault" arguments of the leftist "root causers" that they rejected.
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