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Thread #113224   Message #2404261
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
03-Aug-08 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Reasons for being a Conservative
Subject: RE: BS: Reasons for being a Conservative
Peace, I understand that Neocon and New World Order have often recently bee been used conjunctively. However, most conservatives I have heard use NWO as a pejorative, just as liberals use the N word to cast conservatives in the worst possible light.

It is interesting to me, if true, that the word Neocon has been used for as long as you say. I googled 'Neocon + 19th century'. The closest i could find, were some book reviews and commentaries whic apply the use of the term ex post facto to 18th and 19th century British and French colonialism, and to American actions against the likes of the Barbary Pirates. But I found no contemporaneous use of that term; have you a citation for its use?

If you are correct, then Irving (not William) Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, et. al. have been classified (or self -classified) with a designation which was erroneous.

Hope your Summer is going well--it seems so, viewing the activity about you in the music section. Good-o!