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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
umm, crashed a helicopter in a desert to get our hostages out, not for any great moral reason or to do "good."
do you mean boycotted the Olympics? technically not the military.
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He advocated military solutions in, among other places, Afghanistan and Nicaragua, and had a foreign policy explicitly focused on doing good. Remember Zbignew Brezinski? Zbig probably sounded more like today's neocons than anyone else in the 70s and 80s.
The point was not that Carter was a neocon (I wouldn't consider him such), but that the definition was ridiculous. FDR and JFK easily meet it as well.
So how would people define neocon in a meaningful way? Looking back at the last six years, just what have they contributed to the discussion that is both new and useful and stands up to six years of experience?
