Originally Posted by roachboy

the contemporary neo-cons are the direct descendents of the fine people who brought you the school of the americas, who brought you right-wing paramilitary death squads (by training them) who preferred to support fascist and fascisant regimes in latin america to anything remotely progressive, even social-democracy--anything that would have redistributed wealth and land, anything that would have disrupted the colonial power structure that the americans have worked to maintain in the interest of "anti-communism" since world war 2, in the interest of the colonial project set into motion by the "monroe doctrine"---the contemporary neo-con movement is the pure excresence of the national security state, the representatives of the direction along which the united states turned itself into everything it claimed to oppose, setting itself up as an enemy of democracy and ally of oppression and exploitation. the school of the americas is just one of those places that allows you to walk through the mirror, shift from living inside the consumer-bubble that is "the amurican way of life" and start to think about what that way of life has cost others, the extent to which the "amurican way of life" is predicated on exporting of the worst features of american capitalism--from the plantation system (pace united fruit) through to the "free trade zones" particular to globalization. the neo-cons are the pure excresence of this trajectory within the history of the united states. threatened by the unravelling of the cold war that enabled them to flourish, by the undermining of the rationale for the vast expenditures on military equipment, the vast expenditures on "security systems," by the undermining of the rationale for the entire national-security state, this class fraction developed an alliance with the populist-reactionary politics of the american extreme right beginning in the middle 1970s and working steadily since. the outline of this history is well-known, obvious in a way to anyone who looks.