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A neoconservative (colloquially, neocon) is a former liberal turned conservative. Neoconservatives believe that democracy can and should be installed around the world, even in Muslim countries such as Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. It is said that neoconservatives were responsible for persuading President George W. Bush to invade Iraq, and they have lobbied for military action against Iran also.
Origin
Neo-conservatism was was developed by American academics in the mid-twentieth century.
Publications
The leading publications of neoconservatives are Commentary and The Weekly Standard. Many Washington, D.C. think tanks, such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) are now dominated by neoconservatives.
On Israel
Neoconservatives advocate a strong tie with the State of Israel, both economically and militarily. Some paleoconservative such as Pat Buchanan has accused neoconservatives of putting the interests of Israel above those of America.
Social Issues
Neoconservatives often take libertarian positions on social issues, and are unlikely to agree with religious conservatives on issues like abortion, prayer in school and same-sex marriage. Neoconservatives differ from libertarians in that neoconservatives tend to support Big government policies to further their objectives, and to support erosion of American liberty by Patriot act and other measures such as the implementation of federal gun control.
In anticipation of vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, the neoconservatives urged the selection of Michael McConnell, a libertarian-leaning jurist, and J. Michael Luttig, who declared Roe v. Wade to be "super-stare decisis"[1] and later left the judiciary to become general counsel of Boeing.[2] Both were passed over in filling the vacancies with religious conservatives.
Influence
Neoconservatives are small in number but dominate television talk shows, Washington-based think tanks, and advisory positions in Republican Administrations. Some prominent neoconservatives are William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, David Horowitz, Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Christopher Hitchens, Willmoore Kendall, Stephen Schwartz, Elliott Abrams and Carl Gershman. Because of the Trotskyist background of some key neoconservatives, many critics have argued that the neoconservative concept of "global democratic revolution" was derived from the Trotskyist Fourth International's "vision of permanent revolution".[3]