Ford: actually, Bush's administration, at least the people who call the shots, is made up of secular neocons (yes, I know that word is oversed by now, but its their proper title).
People within the administration like Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Scooter Libby and Richard Perle, as well as leading neocon intellectuals at large, such as Robert Kagan, Irving and William Kristol (father and son) and others. These people are the true source of Bush's agenda, at least when it comes to foreign policy, with a few straight up imperialists among their ranks (Rumsfeld, Condy and Big Dick).
Its important, very important, to know this group, to know their origins. Their origins are, amazingly enough, from the Left. The father of this movement was a guy called
Leo Strauss, who was a politcal philosopher throught most of the 20th century. His views, and indeed the offical views of the neocon movement hold that benevolent world hegemony (by the US of course) if the only way to go, and that whatever needs to be done to achieve this is justifiable. Thats why the neocons have so much respect for Machiavelli, they're kindred spirits.
Now, they deifinitely came from the Left, and also from the Democratic party. They formed from the right-wing sectors of the Democrats, those who hold true that the US should maintain hegemony in order to export democracy and peace and all that bull****. Which is exactly the same thing Kerry & Co are saying. In fact, the neocons have more in common with Kerry, secular and rational, than with Bush and his Bible thumpers. Don't think they won't jump ship if Kerry wins. They are not aligned with a specific party but with a specific ideaology, and whoever can best serve their agenda, thats who they go with. Whats more, they have members both in Republican and Democratic circles. Clinton, Kerry, Lieberman, Clark, Albright and all of those guys, the brains in charge of the Democratic Party, and those who will be making the decisions if Kerry is elected, are within ideological spitting distance from the neocons. Keep in mind, that originally the neocons developed out of the same place Kerry is today: imperialist Democrats.
In some ways, rational and secular imperialists are much more dangerous, because they act rationally. Bush is a cowboy, so when he gets up on the podium, people can read him like a book. He's prone to relgious superstitions, and therefore will make mistakes. But Kerry and the "new Democrats" will act with cold percision and manipulate the American public and the world much better than Bush could.
But anyway, you have no reason to believe me, just watch for yourself.
vyper: and the ironic thing is, he denies neoliberalism even exists
