Start of the new cycle

[Bill the Piper]

(10-05-2018, 11:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Millennials today often mis-identify all older people as "boomers," including some whom boomers themselves staunchly opposed. S&H devotees might then call these neo-cons "idealists." Actually, Neo-conservatives are both older boomers (especially including those older than demographic boomers) and silents.

The main program of neo-cons is to take our nation to war for no good reason. Not good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

George W Bush and Bill Cristol are proper boomers.
Michael Gove, a British politician who self-identifies as a neo-con, is an Xer.

To do away with tyrants like Saddam and the Taliban is idealism. You can criticise the way it was done, but it's hard to deny that the intent was idealistic.

The Wikipedia article is terrible. A better description of the neoconservative doctrine is there:
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/upl...vaisse.pdf