Reply #24: A Neo-Con is someone who follows the Neo-Con ideology [View All]

Specifically that philosophy originated by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz and a group of people who centered around Senator Scoop Jackson. Most of them were Democrats who for a variety of reasons espoused a more active (domineering) US foreign policy. They were later drawn towards Ronald Reagan's gunslinger diplomacy.

Dubya is of course following more in Ronald's footsteps w/r to an ambitious and unilateral foreign policy that is creating a enmity the US will take years to overcome(*). It was Reagan who firmly established the extreme political Islamic groups. And it is Bush who is proving the greatest recruiter, or should I say uniter, they've seen.

And Bush, like Reagan, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative, is pushing the US further and further into debt with their massive big government pork barrel policies which are destroying the middle class while pouring billions into big business and big money. His vaunted tax credit is nothing more than a rehashing of the debunked trickle down economics.

However, Bush is no Reagan in that, to borrow a phrase, he is an empty vessal who lacks any of Reagan's grace and is much more bald faced in his knavery.

Because this is essentially a US-centric ideology, Sharon cannot be a Neo-Con. However, it can easily be proven that Sharon shares a similar philosphy when taken from an Israeli viewpoint.

(*) As much as Ronald Reagan fans claim he took out the Soviet Union, he was just the one who was lucky to be in office when the policies of his predecessors finally bore fruit. The fiscal and social problems which finally doomed the Soviet Union began in the late 60's and was already terminal by the mid 70's.