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The Aftermath of Neoconservatism

Friday, July 3, 2009 , Posted by Raph at 8:15 PM


Neoconservatism never died. With the fall of the Soviets, the movement, void of its raison d'être, slowly melted into the fabric of the conservative generations lens. Realities were no longer necessarily built upon ideological blocs of "communist" and "free,"yet they still remained informed by them. The result rests with those born and bred in the totalizing theatre of the Cold War era. It is where words like "axis of evil," "bad guys," and "Islamic extremists," enter our society and dilute our discourse. 
With neoconservatism has come the dawn of the American age of Knowledgelessness- the push away from complexity towards a cleaner, less substantive, simplification of the world. 

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds:
The reaction of the Obama campaign to this crisis (in Georgia), so at odds with our democratic allies and yet so bizarrely in sync with Moscow, doesn't merely raise questions about Senator Obama's judgment--it answers them.
This is the danger of McCain, an impulse to shape complex foreign affairs into what Andrew Sullivan deems "schoolyard rhetoric". He continues:
"McCain's trigger-happy temperament, shallow understanding of the complexities and passion for military force as the answer to everything is the bigger risk...The damage that neoconservatism has done to America, to the Middle East, to democratic norms, to Israel's security, to civilized values and fiscal sanity is immense and deep."

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