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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore

The point being that they were savage fucking killers with no respect for human life, but I'm sure you knew that already......

I never said that the Contras were good, I said that the author's article is laughable. He's too one-sided.

So, in this country, since we have a two-party system ultimately brought about due to one big debate, then Liberalism and conservatism do in fact oppose each other.

I never said they didn't oppose each other. I said that they aren't polar opposites.

You are wrong. Elaborate, or go away. Those men were interventionists, internationalists, and many supported internationalism as a rejection of leftist doctrine, seeing the world divided in half (much like the machtpolitikers of the 10970s).

Neocons are not only typified by being war hawks, but also by stronger support for social welfare programs (though still far less than the left). They also tend to be stronger in their advocation for government involvement in the preservation of moral standards than their predecessors.

And besides, Irving Kristol is considered the founder of neoconservatism.