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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In his WaPo column today, Michael Kinsley parenthetically points out that the neo-conservatives did not predict the collapse of the Soviet Union -- "their theme had been that the Soviet Union was getting stronger and stronger while the United States diddled."
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A neocon as someone with a "messianic vision" of using American power to spread democracy, an indifference to the crucial distinction between what would be nice and what is essential to national security, and excessive optimism that we can arrange things according to our own values in strange and faraway lands.
That is me. Our foreign policy should be based on spreading free markets and democracy around the world. Not only does that help the rest of the world, but it also improves our national security. Woodrow Wilson was the first Neo-Con, and if the Senate had listened to him, I think the twentieth century would have been much better.
