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To: one_less who wrote (47579)	5/27/2004 12:03:49 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

What do you think was the fundamental neocon mistake? TP

To: one_less who wrote (47579)	5/27/2004 1:34:22 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Neocons have a favorable attitude towards religion, by and large. Some of them are religious, some of them are not. Some of them are Jewish, some are Lutheran, some Catholic, some Episcopalian. They are neither fundamentalist, nor are they religiously or ethnically homogeneous. It so happens that "neoconservatism" largely came into being in publications dominated by the New York intellectual establishment, and that Jews were disproproportionately represented, compared to their percentage in the population, but neoconservatism is not Jewish. The "secret" of neoconservatism is that they did not wholly abandon liberal goals, but decided that democratic capitalism, including the spread of modernization throughout the world, was the best way to achieve them; that there were limits to the efficacy of social engineering; that liberalism had become too weak in foreign policy; and that a concern for "values" was unavoidable in the creation of a decent society. There is more, but I will keep it simple.