When I was in college, I was writing articles like this . In other words, I was never a liberal. I was never the least bit sympathetic with liberalism, nor did I have liberal instincts. I didn’t have a liberal upbringing, and, even when I went through a Randian-Libertarian phase in High School, I found the core anti-Americanism of liberalism unsettling.
Neoconservatives, on the other hand, are generally ex-liberals, and even now they view themselves as the people who must reign in conservatives from their supposed extremism. Consider the youthful indictee, Scooter Libby:
ââ¬ÅLibby didnââ¬â¢t plan the war,ââ¬Â said John Prados, a historian of national security who wrote a book in 2004 on the flawed Iraq intelligence. ââ¬ÅBut he did enable the administration to set out on that course. He was the facilitator.ââ¬Â
Both fans and critics of Mr. Libby might be surprised by some anecdotes from Yale, where Mr. Libby graduated in 1972. Fellow students recall his helping silkscreen T-shirts proclaiming ââ¬Åsolidarityââ¬Â between Yalies and the Black Panthers and going with shoulder-length blond hair and in a leather jacket to help at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.
Disgusting.
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Lots of them were my fellow anti-communists who got sick of being in the anti-American party. Many have become pretty solid since, as re-examining one deeply held association can lead inexorably to more.
That said, the above is a disgusting failure of moral intelligence.