"Neo-con" is not a catch-all term
theboss
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Mon Jun-07-04 11:08 AM
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I'm seeing a lot of people refer to the neo-cons in posts about Reagan. The neo-cons weren't a political factor for the most part of Reagan's time in office.
The neo-cons are former liberals who became conservatives with a foreign policy philosophy that is largely created to protect Israel. Reagan's core supporters (at least early on) were from the Buchanan/Novak/Will end of the party - Cold Warriors who saw Israel mostly as a pawn in a chess game with the USSR. The Reagan White House probably would have sold Israel out in a heartbeat if it could have hurt the Soviets.
The neo-cons foreign policy view is largely a post Cold War concept. The fact that they've converted Cheney and Rumsfeld to this view doesn't mean much in terms of the 80s.
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