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Entry: A March to Nowhere Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_march_to_nowhere#16992 Post contents: Justin, You do not allow comments at Antiwar.com, so I have to respond here to your puzzlement about neoconservatives' astonishing staying power. Necons remain on the media radar, because they have a highly committed support group that has excellent connections and practically unlimited funds. Their political power, however, comes from conservative Christians. Without the hard-line Evangelical vote, neconservatives would be a small frige group with limited influence in spite of all the noise they can make. Conservative Christians, again, can be swayed only by religious arguments. Secular, effects-based, "realist" political reasoning has little effect on their thinking. (The wisdom of man is foolishness in the eyes of God.) Significantly, there are powerful religious arguments that can be used on the politically hard-line Christians, because the war-supporting evangelicals' behavior is irreconcilable with Christ's teaching of humility, meekness, turning the other cheeck, forgiving wrongs and loving your enemies. More impressive yet, the evangelicals' behavior is right in the middle of what Western Christianity used to mean when they talked about the sins of pride and hatred. Pro-war evangelicals would find it very difficult to defend themselves against these impeccably Christian criticisms. An approach from this angle might well be effective in removing the religious support of neoconservatism -- and thus their political power. Sent at: 2008 09 06