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.


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) by a mixture of unilateral threats, bullying and violence. Human nature does not work that way of course, and furthermore in their absurd PNAC manifesto they failed to realise or acknowledge that, necessarily, US military and economic power would be on a relative basis declining on a Global scale in the 21st century. So acting like Totalitarian hegemon's was only going to be shortsighted, and counterproductive in the medium term.


