Neoconservative Putsch

One of leading neoconservatives and son of a former Trotsky follower and founder of neoconservatism, Bill Kristol, expresses his disdain for Rep. Ron Paul and Patrick Buchanan in the video below.  He believes that both men should be expelled or 'shunned' from the GOP - even though both men are more traditionally republican than people like Kristol.   It speaks volumes of the current mindset of the GOP establishment that there can be no doctrinal deviation concerning preemptive war and 100% support of Israel.

I find it ironic that after ten years of neoconservative wars and people like Bill Kristol urging an immediate attack upon Iran (which will result in tens of thousands of Americans deaths), that there appears so little introspection and analysis of these neocon doctrines.  No, rather than defend these policies, the neoconservatives want to eject from the GOP anyone who disagrees with their policies of continuous wars and extending global hegemony. 

Very good summary of neoconservatism by Ron Paul.

Any wonder why voters are deserting these parties captured by the neocon agenda?  I have only voted twice for a GOP presidential candidate and that was three decades ago.  Not that I like the Democrats and their similar pro-death agendas.  I am strictly a third party person.  Except for its nominal pro-life support, which BTW Kristol has written should also be jettisoned by the GOP with all other cultural issues, how can Catholics support a party whose interests are not for the common good but rather for narrow parochial interests and Utopian fantasies?

The following review of Pat Buchanan's new book 'Suicide of a Superpower' encapsulates the neoconservative mindset very well.


" In contrast, neoconservatism, which strikes neutral observers as equally tribal in motivation, has unleashed so much violence over the last decade precisely because of its pretenses to universal benevolence. If you root for some other team than the neocons root for, well, that’s not just an accident of birth, as Buchanan understands. Instead, to a neocon, rooting for the wrong team is proof that you are, as Richard Perle and David Frum used to say,evil.  Worse, you aren’t supposed to get the joke when it comes to neoconservatism. If you realize why neocon claims to be repairing humanity are funny, you are worse than evil.

As Buchanan mentions in a brief aside:

“Neonconservatism, which shares attributes with the Trotskyism that is one of its roots, is one of the new ideologies to have seized the imagination of those seeking a cause …