It's not a backtrack. I was editing my post while you constructed and posted yours. It's a clarification of an argument which started over a cartoon.
Okay, Neoconservative foreign policy has it's roots in Trotskyite teachings. The neoconservatives are leftists who found safe harbor with Democrat Senator "Scoop" Jackson during the 60s an 70s. They then migrated to the republican Party and succeeded in gaining the White House via George Bush Jr..
I'm satisfied with that.

