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To: JohnM who wrote (6734)	12/13/2005 9:27:38 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542041

I never read Public Interest or any heavily polarized publication on the left or the right so I can't say for sure. I know Kristol is the godfather of the neocons and their agenda went beyond defense and foreign affairs. But I never tracked it much because zealous crusades just don't interest me. They usually end badly, with an occasional exception like civil rights. The right has moved from Goldwater asserting "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!", a complete oxymoron, to Shrub calling the Constitution a "goddamn piece of paper" if indeed that story is true. People who talk like that don't support American ideals of freedom and democracy as I understand them.

To: JohnM who wrote (6734)	12/13/2005 10:23:05 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542041

the Cold War, which, again, was the neo-con focus I don' think you are correct to assume the neocons have/had one focus. Their think tanks have a variety of departments each with a different area of specialty. Spending to counter the Soviets, or spending to counter Iraq all has as it's primary result, massive debt. The public reasons for the debt are not the same as the strategic reasons. TP