Interesting but a bit off

Looking at the ’Big Picture’ by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com: "More recently, the neoconservatives have merged Teddy’s bombast and Wilson’s hubris to create a monstrous hybrid that combines all the worst impulses in American intellectual life: in foreign affairs, this amounts to a messianic militarism that openly proclaims "global hegemony" as the proper goal of American foreign policy. I would argue that this reflects the origins of neoconservatism on the far left and its evolution into a kind of Trotskyism turned inside out, with George W. Bush’s wars fought in the name of a "global democratic revolution" displacing, in their hearts, the old Leninist dream of an international communist revolution."


The distinctive element in the current struggle is hardly the zeitgeist of Bush wars with their shock and awe, macho notions. The distinctive element is the idea of nonviolent change due to the growing resolution of all sorts and conditions of human beings. This is something new under the sun and cannot be easily fit into the scenario suggested in the above paragraph.