Neocon theorist Irving Kristol dies at 89

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Neocon theorist Irving Kristol dies at 89

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Irving Kristol, a founding theoretician of America's radical political philosophy, neo-conservatism, has died at the age of 89.

The Brooklyn-born New Yorker of Jewish descent died on September 18, after decades of theoretical contributions to the political thinking known as neo-conservatism which dominated the United States' political landscape for different periods of time.

According to the neo-conservative principles, originally coined by the US scholar Michael Harrington in 1973, the US social order had suffered because it "no longer knew what it was talking about" under liberalism or ethics of individual freedom.

Traditional Republicans and Liberals, Kristol claimed, had become disillusioned by the 'complex' reality which was defined by the status quo and which altered for different people in varying situations.

The late writer and publisher endorsed the use of force by means of economic and military sanctions in order to establish capitalism and the American Way in 'non-conforming' countries - a doctrine upheld by the previous US administration under the former President George W. Bush.

A long-time advocate of socialism, Kristol renounced the Marxist agenda after World War II and gradually switched hard-line conservative sets of ideas.

He became a member of the influential think tanks, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Enterprise Institute in the 1970s.

He also made controversial moves against a number of Democratic figures including former South Dakota Senator and presidential contender George S. McGovern who had campaigned for a massive cost cut in US military expenditures and criticized the continuation of the Vietnam War.

"Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30 percent. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now in interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the State of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel," Kristol had once opined.

McGovern lost the presidential race to the incumbent Republican President Richards Nixon in 1972.

Kristol maintained that neo-conservatism has formed an "intellectual current" which has assumed power through "gradual evolution" rather than a swift movement.

George Bush awarded Kristol the highest US civilian honor in 2002, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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[AHNUBIS]

He is in hell now.

[thirdeyewise]

he should have taken william with him!