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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (430071)	7/21/2003 10:09:22 AM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

All the more reason to support tax cuts, IMO. If the beast is dangerous and out of control, then starve the beast. Do not continue to feed it.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (430071)	7/21/2003 11:03:15 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

Mr. Paul is very ill informed. For one thing, Leo Strauss was not a Trotskyite, and was always considered a conservative thinker. For another, the Machiavelli text favored by the Straussians was "Discourses on Livy", a defense of republican institutions. Most of the early generation of neocons were socialists at some point in their life, but few were Trotskyites. Irving Kristol, one of the few who was, was so for only a couple of years in college, practically. He changed his political opinions after being drafted and serving in the Army, for sure, and spent his entire working life as an anti- Communist. Most of the others were from the anti- Leninist left, that is, supporters of the likes of Norman Thomas, and, by the end of the War, if not before, were part of the Democratic Party. In fact, most of them were against the Wallacites (Henry Wallace) for being blind about the threat of Communism, and supported Harry Truman. Of the younger generation, few of them had any political existence outside of the Democratic Party. Some were leftists, but few were Marxists, and, if Marxists, were revisionists, that is, European style anti- Communist socialists. Some were in the New Left, but few were on the fringe. Some who are called by Paul "neocons" are not at all, such as Rumsfeld, who is a pretty conventional internationalist Republican. Some, like William Kristol, were never really leftists, although their parents may have been at one time. Kristol came out of Harvard under the influence of the Straussians, and was more influenced by Plato and Aristotle than he would ever be by Marx. He is mainly considered a neocon because it is his social milieu, as it were. Paul is a bit of a crank.........