November 17, 2006
Iraq is now increasingly seen as having nothing to do with combating terrorism. Or, more precisely, the war is seen as actually increasing the threat of terrorism. Well not the neocons in Weshington, Canberra and London. Even if they are running to the exits and pointing the finger elsewhere they still see Iraq as central to the war on terrorism.
Peter Brookes
The heritage of the neocons is heavy one for modern conservatism as it now celebrates uses war. It is only too willing to let loose the dogs of war. War is a good prism to understand modern conservatism. It is not just a mixture of libertarianism and traditionalism that we see at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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Contrary to their self advertisements one cannot be both a "libertarian" and a traditionalist.This essay is a criticism of the consequences of the adolescent libertarian anti-"culture".
1. www.dabase.net/polunity.htm
Essentially libertarians are just dramatising a fear of being controlled by either mom or dad and a "profound" reluctance to engage the demand for conscious relationship/participation inherent in being born as a human being.