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Entry: Jonah Goldberg Takes on Ron Paul Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/jonah_goldberg_takes_on_ron_paul#11718 Post contents: Well, this rebuttal pretty much dispenses with the ideological claptrap that the Neocon Review is spewing out. I am convinced that the Neocons are trapped in a WWII worldview that they cannot escape--somehow, their arguments always reinvigorate that paradigm. Please have them roll up the shades in the Ivory Tower and peer out the window. While many of the "backward" societies are trying to modernize their infrastructures and obtain foreign capital, the USA is utterly defocused on the "war" and chasing "bad guys" around the globe. Their "means" to this end is to centralize and control everything (internally and externally) in a vain attempt to capture an Empire. Their only interest in technology is to empower the enforcers; meanwhile, the USA rots from inside, smothers within intolerable bureaucracy, and becomes less competititve. Americans are becoming like drones--waiting for the next order from Washinton to see how much water they can use in their toilets. The Neocon/Neoliberal agenda may be wrapped in the rubric of international gamesmanship and brokered treaties, but the real goal is to establish a lofty perch for the Emperor and his handmaidens so that they can play with all the "little dominoes" of the world. Of course, long ago, I remember Buckley endorsing "drug freedom" (probably has changed since then)--no surprise, because it's clear that he and the Neocons are smoking something powerful. Their system cannot work--because people and nations are not going to tolerate it for long. Capturing an Empire is one thing--then one has to maintain it. Decentralization and modernization, with ample economic/personal freedom, are much stronger antidotes for America's ailments. Soon, the American people are going to see the Neocon/Neoliberal charlatans for what they are--and they'll be greatly disappointed with the visage. The "blowback" is coming, fast. Sent at: 2008 07 24