Word: neos
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...legal issue - his government would struggle to find a legal basis on which to accept, let alone take part in, the running of Iraq as a de facto U.S. protectorate. But it's also a political question. The Prime Minister has pointedly distanced his government from the wider neo-conservative agenda, insisting that the U.S. must do more to bring Israel into compliance with UN resolutions and rejecting Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's threats to Syria and Iran. Having gone to war on the principle of upholding international legality, the British public is unlikely to embrace the argument offered by Secretary...
...fellow professor at the University of Chicago, the culture critic Allan Bloom. It was at Chicago, the home of Bloom and the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss, that Wolfowitz was first exposed to the set of ideas that is now often called "neoconservative." In their belief system, neoconservatives--or neo-Reaganites, as some prefer to be called--are at once pessimists and optimists. The world, they believe, is a dangerous, threatening place. Civilization and democracy hang by a thread; great beasts prowl the forest, ready to prey on those not tough enough to meet them in equal combat...
...just see it as an unfortunate turn in American foreign policy to neo-imperialist policy,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that we don’t have an anti-imperalist party in the United States...
...fact that I had to suffer over this decision—to sit or to walk—illustrates how extremists on both sides of the Iraq debate have polarized our campus. Counter-protests by Republican hawks respond to neo-hippy anti-war protests. Flame wars have erupted on house lists—in one case, two roommates faced off, one sending out pro-war propaganda, the other peace pamphlets...
Critics still maintain that the economic benefits outweigh any ecological harm done by the logging. This view, however, flies in the face of reality and simply reflects the outdated economic analysis of a neo-mercantilist economy that relies on natural resources to provide growth. America has been moving toward a service economy based on information and technology for many years and logging represents the past not the future. In 20 years, when all the forests have been logged, those workers that benefit today will again be facing unemployment, with the only difference being the destruction of the forest. But even...