"It should by now be obvious that, in his foreign policy views at minimum, hte president of the U.S. is no conservative. He is a Jacobin nationalist."
"...ideologically charged missionary spirit that bears a striking resemblance to that of hte Jacobins who led the French Revolution."
"The neoconservatives have transformed the old American exceptionalism, which counseled isolation form the world, into an assertive, ideologically intense nationalism, whose smugness seems to know no bounds."
"[in media commentary] neo-Jacobin thinking is todya challenging an older, more diffuse and less vigorous liberalism for pre-eminence."
"According to Irving Kristol, the reputed godfather of neoconservatism, today's US is 'ideological, like the Sovet Union of yesterday.' His son William insists that for America vigorously to promote its universal principles abroad, it must have great military and other governmental might. The old conservative suspicion of strong, centralized federal govenment must be abandoned. According to the elder Kristol, it has been the role of neoconservatism 'to convert the Republican party and conservatism in general, against their will,' to this new conception of government."
"Burke [British father of conservatism] warned specifically against 'liberty' in the abstract."
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