The Origins of Neo-Conservatism, Researched by Professor Kevin MacDonald

[Wolfgang Mozart]

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September 18, 2003

 

Thinking About Neoconservatism

 

By Kevin MacDonald

 

Over the last year, there’s been a torrent of articles on neoconservatism raising (usually implicitly) some vexing issues: Are neoconservatives different from other conservatives? Is neoconservatism a Jewish movement? Is it “anti-Semitic” to say so?

 

The dispute between the neocons and more traditional conservatives — “paleoconservatives” — is especially important because the latter now find themselves on the outside, looking in on the conservative power structure.

 

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[Wolfgang Mozart]

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March 24, 2003 issue

Copyright © 2003 The American Conservative

 

Whose War?

 

A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interest.

 

by Patrick J. Buchanan

 

The War Party may have gotten its war. But it has also gotten something it did not bargain for. Its membership lists and associations have been exposed and its motives challenged. In a rare moment in U.S. journalism, Tim Russert put this question directly to Richard Perle: “Can you assure American viewers ... that we’re in this situation against Saddam Hussein and his removal for American security interests? And what would be the link in terms of Israel?”

 

Suddenly, the Israeli connection is on the table, and the War Party is not amused. Finding themselves in an unanticipated firefight, our neoconservative friends are doing what comes naturally, seeking student deferments from political combat by claiming the status of a persecuted minority group. People who claim to be writing the foreign policy of the world superpower, one would think, would be a little more manly in the schoolyard of politics. Not so.

 

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