what turns a human being into a Neo Con?

Peace Bro Whisper -

As with most of your threads, I will have a self-destruct button ready if I
didn't understand what your intention was.

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One simple question: what turns a human being into a Neo Con?

One simple answer: Retrospectively watching the 'good guys' work over
their own people (and others) - it helps alot to foster a diamond hard
pragmatism alot like the English had developed in the face of the
constant Holy Wars - in a nutshell, "if this what the peacebringers of
religion can do - how can we do worse?" So, early on, we can see how
major failures of religious culture (and other catastrophes) led to further
political and philosophic insularity on an already clannish and clubbish
nation.

Personal: A few of my pals from Mount Lebanon, PA went on from HS to
college to international law and politics - quite a few had gone on to
become Neo-Con in their tenor when I caught up with them 15 years
down the line.
When I asked how they could confortably sit with those divisive views, the
answers were about identical.

"Every other country when they have had the chance has behaved the
same way or worse."

A Further Thought:

When we were kids, we were introduced to the sadistic horrors of what
the Spanish (amongst others) did to the native Americans, after their
successful purging of Muslims and Jews from the mainland of Spain.    
Spain went into it's long decline, losing hold of most of it's real estate -
and then only within the last century offering the world an opportunity to
embrace Franco's death-affirming fascism.

So the historical neo-con might say as Nietzsche says -

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves
good because they had no claws"

And then proceed to divvy up the spoils to the club.


Hope this was remotely on topic.

Yours in Deen,

Jamal Morelli


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