Define Neoconservatism

I understand that liberals and libertarians are different i was jsut using two different political ideologies to say that anyone can be a Neo-con not just conservatives.

so basically people accredit Neoconservatism for defeating communism in the end but not in vietnam? so foreign policy emphasis makes neocons more likely to support globalization rather than isolationism, which is what both major parties are concerned about right, domestic issues?
 
Neoconservatism didn't defeat communism. It couldn't have, as it was a movement that started in the 1990s, after the 1st gulf war. Neoconservatism wouldn't have been possible without the fall of communism. It was America's position as the sole remaining superpower that the Neo-cons were basing their whole theory on. Another part of the ideology was to use American wealth (and arms, if needed) to ensure that we remained the only superpower. That one's worked out about as well as the rest of their fantasies... Just ask the Chinese.

--Shannon
 
Neoconservatism hasn't really had much of a domestic agenda,
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you mean as in I am the president and my powers during war supercede the Constitution type of domestic policy?

I would call that a whopper of a domestic policy.
 
you mean as in I am the president and my powers during war supercede the Constitution type of domestic policy?

I would call that a whopper of a domestic policy.
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Indeed. In fact, the so-called "Unitary Executive Theory," otherwise known as "the President can do whatever the hell he wants, as long as he can connect it to whatever he decrees to be a war," is perhaps the only domestic policy statement put forth by prominent academic neo-cons. But, and I think this is important, that idea has always been in support of an outward-looking agenda, concerned primarily with the use of American might to enhance and expand American global hegemony. They are, despite the inappropriate use of the word over the last 40 years, true imperialists. Perhaps the first we've seen since the 19th Century. That's appropriate, really, since their orientation has always seemed to me to be that of the the Gilded Age and late 19th Century Europe. And we all know how well that turned out. Well, at least the ones who survived it know.

--Shannon
 
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