What is your definition of 'Neoconservative'?

Question

Here is a good one, but not very complete

"Most neoconservative defense intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right. They are products of the influential Jewish-American sector of the Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti-communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history. Their admiration for the Israeli Likud party's tactics, including preventive warfare such as Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, is mixed with odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for "democracy." They call their revolutionary ideology "Wilsonianism" (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism. Genuine American Wilsonians believe in self-determination for people such as the Palestinians. "

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lind1.html

Answer 1

I agree; I can't find anything too conservative about neo-cons. Their view of the role of government is unlike anything a traditional conservative would promote.

Answer 2

I have no idea what the liberal definition is, but I'll give you mine. When I was growing Democrats and Republicans were pretty much both conservatives. The differed in opinion as to where control of the money spent should be. Democrats wants Washinton DC to control it all and Republicans wanted it controlled at the lowest possible level. When the liberals took control of the Democratic Party they alienated a lot of the old party base and those people started electing Republicans in places where Democrats used to have total control. Because these people would still punch your lights out if you called them Republicans, liberals had to come up with a new term to call them. These people were still conservatives but they weren't voting for Democrats so liberals termed them NeoConservatives which was shortened to NeoCons. Now Con is also slang for Convict librerals really liked the term NeoCon because it allowed liberals to imply these NeoCons were the New Convicts and yet if called for this insult they could have deniability and say that wasn't really what they meant. You are right on one aspect they use the term because it sounds dirty.

Answer 3

Ah, I see. Neo-Conservative ideology is really the ideological descendant of Troskyism.
If you beleive that, then either you are completely ignorant about any political ideology or just so blinded by hatred of any ideology that is right of centre that such distinctions make little difference.

Another funny thing about this "definition": Did you notice what the main focus of the definition was? That's right, Jews and Israel. As if all neo con ideology concerns itself is with those two subjects.
Get this straight: Not all, or even most, or even the majority neo cons are Jewish and the neo con view of Israel is just one point in their view.

Maybe if you were so inclined, you would read what neo cons have to say (you don't have to agree with them to do that) and how they define themselves and their views. You may find that it is a bit different than this so called definition.

Answer 4

At one time Neocons were pro-communist In fact the first country to recognize their new country was Russia not today

Answer 5

douche bag

Answer 6

A neoconservative is a former liberal who has developed conservative values.

Answer 7

"Ultra-Nationalists" with authoritarian tendancies