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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (448371)8/26/2003 3:10:04 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Liberal democracy is democracy with civil liberties protecting minority rights. In other words, it is democracy constructed to guard against the tyranny of the majority.

Neocons are a particular faction among conservatives. You people know little about it, and have taken to saying a lot of nonsense, as in your dig about Victorianism. I don't even know where you got such an idea, not to mention that it is totally false. Also, when I say "largely free markets", I would be satisfied with seeing European welfare states, that is up to them. I just mean that there has to be a more or less capitalist core, as is true even in Sweden. Most Neocons were pro- Kosovo. And we have intervened in Liberia. There is nothing wrong in trying to have the primary peacekeeping force come from surrounding nations. We are rather busy elsewhere....