The New Rules: Neocons are Alive and Kicking

The New Rules: Neocons are Alive and Kicking

If you thought the neocons were vanquished, disappearing along with theBush-Cheney administration, better think again. Their mindset stillanimates most of what the GOP offers in opposition to President BarackObama's magical apology tour. For while the president won a Nobel PeacePrize for his heartfelt mea maxima culpa, Charles Krauthammer & Co. see no reason to surrender America's two-decades-and-counting "era ofmaximum dominance" to the Chinese simply because Beijing holds the pinkslip on our national economy.

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Atthe heart of this struggle lie two diametrically opposed views oftoday's world: one that accepts globalization as the all-powerfulshaper of human destiny, and one that does not, thereby leaving openthe "choice" of primacy, in Krauthammer's vernacular. For Obama,globalization is an inescapable condition of profound interdependency-- the destroyer of zero-sum competition. But for Republican hawks,globalization is nothing more than the next playing field upon whichfierce great-power competition and conflicts will unfold. In the mindsof these "true realists," globalization has, to date, failed to changehuman nature. As a result, its perceived interdependencies amount tonothing in the face of determined ideologues -- themselves included.

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