{"id":809,"date":"2006-12-03T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2006-12-03T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T04:00:40","slug":"neoconservatives-or-neo-con-men-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/03\/neoconservatives-or-neo-con-men-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoconservatives or Neo Con-Men? The Answer:"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I am a retired Psychoanalyst, not a Political Scientist. I&#8217;m writing this blog for three reasons. <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The first is outrage at my television set. For six years, when I watch the news, my blood boils.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The second reason is personal. I started to try to write a book and found that it had been so long since I&#8217;d written anything, I didn&#8217;t know how to do it anymore. So I started writing daily as an exercise in writing. This stuff is what I found myself writing.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The third reason came on the morning after the election in 2004. While I wasn&#8217;t in love with John Kerry, and I&#8217;m only statistically a Democratic voter, not a Party Member, on that November morning in 2004, I woke up depressed. I&#8217;m not a depressive person. I couldn&#8217;t accept that this country had made a decison that was that bad, again. So I started researching and writing to help me get over the painful dysphoria I felt about the re-election of Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, and their cohorts.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">It sort of worked! I now follow the news without having my blood boil in the same way. It fuels my daily writing. And I&#8217;ve learned a lot by doing it. I&#8217;m no longer conflicted when I write. Is my grammar okay? Am I saying it right? Do I have references or am I just ranting? I don&#8217;t know the answers to those questions, but they don&#8217;t paralyze me and I produce words. But mostly, I&#8217;m not so glum about America, particularly since that morning in November 2006 when I woke up in a campground in North Georgia in the fog bank to the news that my fellow countrymen had regained their senses and voted like Americans. Compared to this time last year, I feel hopeful, instead of hopeless&#8230;    <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">So what about the question on the table, <strong>Are the Neoconservatives Idealogogues or simply Con-Men, driven by greed? <\/strong>I started by discussing my motives for writing this blog in so far as I know them. Some of my reasons are altruistic, and some are personal, and some are probably unknown. For example, I&#8217;m a retired &quot;expert.&quot; Maybe I&#8217;m writing it to try to be an &quot;expert&quot; again. The most depressing thing about the elections in 2000 and 2004 to me was the overwhelming support that came from the Christians in America. Maybe, I&#8217;m an &quot;unconscious&quot; Christian, still longing for the simple, clear view of the world that religion supplies, and I&#8217;m writing this to &quot;reform&quot; Christianity. I don&#8217;t know the answers to those questions because I don&#8217;t want those things to be true, so I cannot trust my judgement on those points. In my professional life, I learned on a daily basis that most human opinions are like this &#8211; multiple motives, some lofty, many personal, many unknown, often, unknowable. And when it&#8217;s groups, the sky is the limit.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">But as for the motives of the Neoconservatives &#8211; some are zionists, some are atruistic, many are pragmatists, many are on a power trip, but there is an unfortunately heavy weighting of Capitalistic motives in people already too rich to be doing what they&#8217;re doing. I am convinced that our Vice President is either way out of touch with what makes him tick or he&#8217;s a crook of the worst kind, as his unsavory motives are so readily transparent. He&#8217;s either conning himself, or us, but I suspect the answer is more likely, both. <\/div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"justify\"><strong><em>Halliburton wins as long as we keep fighting in Iraq, even if we&#8217;re losing the war. If we pull out, Halliburton loses.<\/em> How hard is that to figure out?<\/strong> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align=\"justify\">Independent of what he thinks he&#8217;s doing or what he wants us to think he&#8217;s doing, <strong>Vice President Dick Cheney is <em>The Neo Con-Man<\/em><\/strong> <strong>extrodinaire of the New American Century<\/strong>. <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">He should never have been elevated to a place of power in our government with such a huge conflict of interest. He should never have accepted the position offered with such a huge conflict of interest. We certainly should never have accepted any decison he was involved in, with him having such a huge conflict of interest. So he needs to be removed, or marginalized, and, perhaps, punished.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And my personal answer to the general question: <strong>Neoconservatives or Neo Con-Men? <\/strong>is &quot;<strong>Yes &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>Neoconservative Neo Con-Men?<\/strong>&quot;    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a retired Psychoanalyst, not a Political Scientist. I&#8217;m writing this blog for three reasons. The first is outrage at my television set. For six years, when I watch the news, my blood boils. The second reason is personal. 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