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Soviet America?(Insider Report)
Writing in the August 25th issue of The Weekly Standard, neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol sketched out the basics of what he calls "The Neoconservative Persuasion."
Among the central beliefs of that persuasion, Kristol explained, is that for "a great power, the 'national interest' is not a geographical term, except for fairly prosaic matters.... A smaller nation might appropriately feel that its national interest begins and ends at its borders, so that its foreign policy is almost always in a defensive mode. A larger nation has more extensive interests. And large nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear and the United States of today, inevitably have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns." (Emphasis added.)
Kristol also observed, "Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable."
But this is a circular argument. Centralized power in America has increased largely because we have foolishly involved ourselves in foreign wars. A ...
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