From: denyav@aol

Looks are always deceiving,for example did you know that both Karl Marx and
Engels were members of "The League of Just" which was the islamic wing of
"The
Illuminati"?

Well, that is most interesting, indeed.

But to get back to the topic of the origin of the "neo-con," let's sum it up by
saying they evolved from the hard-line anti-communist Democrats of the
Truman-Kennedy-Johnson era who from 1972 found themselves abandoned by a party
not merely moving to the Left (not necessarily a bad thing in itself), but
which had become, in Jean Kirkpatrick's words, the "blame America first party."
Kirkpatrick is, of course, herself a perfect example of a Democrat who bolted
the party, first by becoming candidate Reagan's foreign policy advisor, and
ending by joining the Republican Party.
Today the Bush administration is filled with neo-cons (ie hard-line
Democrats/former Democrats) and/or their descendents--in the case of Richard
Pipes this is literally true, as his son Daniel, is a major player in forming
Bush administration policy toward the Islamic world.
Someone in this thread said there are no neo-cons in the Bush administration,
which caused me to laugh so hard I nearly fell out of my chair. This is _the_
neo-con administration. That's why "real" Republican conservatives are so
angry at Bush: he's not running a Republican administration; he's running a new
and improved Kennedy-Johnson administration, with the warm bodies to prove it.
George W. is their revenge against George McGovern and Jimmy Carter. That is
why the current crowd of Democrats loathe the neo-cons with irrational
fury--they see them as turncoats; worse, turncoats who have gained power and
driven them from it. They cannot stand that. Of course the neo-cons are
shouting like James Cagney in White Heat, "Top of the world, ma! Top of the
world!"


Chris Mark