WHAT DO NEOCONS BELIEVE?
The article by Joe Sobran that I link to above describes the neocons as essentially “pragmatists” who are, at best, “muddled centrists” with “conservative leanings,” and as basically lacking any coherent ideology beyond support for the New Deal’s statification of American capitalism and a general feeling that they’d “had enough of liberalism.” Sobran is right about their statist inclinations, but he’s wrong on the essential point. The neocons may be all over the map on domestic policy, exhibiting none of the gut-level distrust of government power that defines the traditional American Right, but on the vital question of foreign policy they have been the most consistently belligerent faction in American politics. THE TRIUMPH OF SIDNEY HOOK Indeed, warmongering is the very essence of neoconservatism: the first neocons (James Burnham, and Max Shachtman, two dissident Trotskyists who turned right staring in 1940) split with the Left over the question of World War II: Burnham went on to set
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