THE NEO-CON VALUE SYSTEM

For all the talk from the radio gasbags about "liberal elites," it's the neo-cons who really believe that they are (or should be) the ruling elite. Irving Kristol, in his collection of essays "Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea," makes clear that he distrusts what he terms "the common man," primarily based on his experience with his fellow American soldiers in WW II. He goes so far as to suggest that they aren't all that far removed from the Nazis.

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