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Entry: Truly Conservative? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/truly_conservative#26961 Post contents: Although it bothers me to apply the word 'conservative" to various shades of social democratic accommodation to the managerial state, I shall make that verbal concession here as a convenience or courtesy. I'm not sure what it means to break from the conservative movement only over foreign policy because everything in that movement is now of a piece. The present authorized version of American conservatism is a quintessentially leftist movement, committed to human rights doctrines at home and abroad. Would you like that movement better if you could have Michael Ledeen's agenda for America without its foreign policy implications? The American conservative movement is like most other ideologically driven movements. Its foreign policy represents an extension of what it seeks to do at home, by pushing feminism, Martin Luther Kingism, and the abomination of 'democratic capitalism." Sent at: 2008 12 01