Bravo! Finally someone besides Ron Paul points out that perpetual war is not a conservative value.
To take your final paragraph to the heart of the neocon argument you should mention that besides the 47,000 US casualties, the Iraq conflict cost them 250,000+ casualties and countless deaths from disease and starvation due to us wrecking their infrastructire.
Is this just a case of "neccessary sacrifices" we impose on them to deliver our ideological paradise to them?
In introducing his new book, "Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America," Paul Gottfried identifies a fundamental divide between neoconservatives and the traditional right. The divide is over the question: What is this nation, America?
Straussians, writes Gottfried, "wish to present the construction of government as an open-ended rationalist process. All children of the Enlightenment, once properly instructed, should be able to carry out this ... task."
For traditional conservatives, before the nation is born, "ethnic and cultural preconditions" must exist. All "successful constitutional orders," he writes, "are the expressions of already formed nations and cultures."
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And all of this because we were attacked by 19 people (mainly from Saudi Arabia) with boxcutters.
In case you didn't see this below:
"I've heard to story many time before but there never seems to be any definitive about it.
Herman,
Here you go and from an establishment source at that.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1#.T-TFpZGwV7c
This made the front page of a New Jersey newspaper seen here. I believe the paper is the Bergen Record.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/09/10/the-five-dancing-israelis-arrested-on-9-11/
That story should change everything.
Israel should go from our "greatest ally" to our mortal enemy.
Do I think it will happen? Of course not.
Israel is our enemy.