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It's called a "neoliberal".

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 10:34:05 AM EST
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Well in the US the term neo-liberal is starting to mean those who were against Bush and the invasion of Iraq, but think some sort of community of nations could take on the reformulated neo-colonial role.

One of the chief spokesmen is John Ikenberry and his Princeton Project on National Security. Here's a link to his web page:

http://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qname=facultydetail&ID=gji3

(I should point out that those of us that think this groups ideas are ridiculous use the term neo-liberal, they don't call themselves that.)

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by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 10:52:29 AM EST
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Well in the US the term neo-liberal is starting to mean those who were against Bush and the invasion of Iraq

Is it?  When I think of neo-liberal, I think of Thomas Freidman.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 10:55:38 AM EST
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Bingo.

Tom Friedman is a huge neo-liberal.


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by redstar on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 12:23:33 PM EST
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Friedman and the addled crew at The New Republic are the original American neo-liberals.

And I'd amend this:

Well in the US the term neo-liberal is starting to mean those who were against Bush and the invasion of Iraq

to:

Well in the US the term neo-liberal is starting to mean those who claim now to have been against Bush and the invasion of Iraq but actually back in 2002 and 2003 were lapdog supporters who excoriated the anti-war left as Chamberlainite appeasers.

by Matt in NYC on Wed Jan 10th, 2007 at 08:35:42 AM EST
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Well, that goes to the core of the different meanings of "liberal" in Europe and the USA.

In Europe "liberal" derives from the original "laissez-faire liberal". In the US it has something to do with social/civil libertarianism. The reason US libertarians call themselves libertarians (a term which in Europe used to mean left-anarchist) is that "liberal" was taken to include the economic left.

This led to endless fun on the respective wikipedia articles years ago.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 9th, 2007 at 10:57:18 AM EST
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