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Entry: "Never Again" Nation Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/never_again_nation#23598 Post contents: Although I have never met the author of this blog, Mr. Roach's attempt to find some philosophical consistency in the politics of the neoconservatives is one of the best hermeneutic efforts of its kind that I have read. Despite my longtime preoccupation with the same subject, I learned a great deal from looking at his perceptive comments about "the march of abstractions." The question that needs to be addressed, however, is why so many heartland, self-proclaimed conservatives and patriots thrill to neocon abstractions. Why don't those who look and sound like Middle Americans recognize that the neocons are not genuine American nationalists? Perhaps America's patriotic rhetoric is now so full of Wilsonian abstraction and appeals to global democracy that it is no longer possible to draw distinctions between patriots and Wilsonians--or American nationalists democratic revolutionaries. Sent at: 2008 07 20