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Originally Posted by Godless Dave
Pesonally I feel that even at face value the ideas of the neo-cons are imperialistic, warlike, and un-American. And from a purely practical point of view, installing friendly dictatorships overseas in order to increase our security and access to natural resources is what we did during the Cold War and it didn't exactly turn out so well: the mujihadeen turned on us, the Shah of Iran was overthrown, Saddam Hussein turned on us, Central and South Americans fled their US-supported dictators to become illegal immigrants in the US, our support for the Saudis bred resentment that was exploited by the mujihadeen who we had trained in terrorist tactics. Aside from any moral objections to a free nation pursuing a military-driven imperialist foreign policy, chickens always eventually come home to roost.
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I tend to agree, however... There are a number of different presentations, and so far as I can tell, the neocons have plausible deniability on a lot of the nasty stuff, so it's hard to nail down exactly what they really think or believe.