"Politically incorrect" history has neocons steamed
by Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.Com
02/28/05
The neocons, with their domestic program of 'big government conservatism' and their foreign policy of perpetual war, are politically vulnerable at their very base: they fear Tom Woods far more than Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Naomi Klein combined. Because he represents a real threat to their claim to the mantle of conservatism, and that, above all, is something that cannot be tolerated. The viciousness of the attacks on Woods underscores neocon sensitivities on this subject: they, after all, were Scoop Jackson Democrats and errant Trotskyites not so long ago, and the Woods book is an unwelcome reminder that conservatism is, for them, an alien tradition -- which is the second point to be made here...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4994
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
AntiWar.Com
02/28/05
The neocons, with their domestic program of 'big government conservatism' and their foreign policy of perpetual war, are politically vulnerable at their very base: they fear Tom Woods far more than Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Naomi Klein combined. Because he represents a real threat to their claim to the mantle of conservatism, and that, above all, is something that cannot be tolerated. The viciousness of the attacks on Woods underscores neocon sensitivities on this subject: they, after all, were Scoop Jackson Democrats and errant Trotskyites not so long ago, and the Woods book is an unwelcome reminder that conservatism is, for them, an alien tradition -- which is the second point to be made here...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4994
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 28. Feb, 15:31