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Has anyone done any contemplation of the fact that the intellectual fathers of the neocon movement were often former Trotskyites? I wonder about this because Trotskyites and other movement people are well trained in the brutal real politics of organizing and subterfuge to win their position, often have embraced almost Leninist tactics to win and ignore inconvient facts that don't match their nearly black and white view of the world? You can see the Trotskyite tactics in how they lay their plans and fight their battles, as well as their belief that they are following a higher path...once it would have been dialectical materialsm and the Marxist view of history and the inevitatility of communism, but today that is replaced with a mythic sense of "freedom" in the democratic mode...indeed, their dedication to freedom is such that freedoms may be surrendered in order to achieve and secure freedom -- A contradiction that bothers them no more than the death of millions would bother a Trotskyite in the advance of communism.
