More Lessons from 40 Years Ago

How can you possibly interpret this post as "pro Buckley"???

One of the fathers of fascism. Dig deeper. You can argue for him until you're blue in the face but the truth remains. He's not only a neocon, he was recognized as "The Neocon."

Here's a piece of truth for you. Be sure and catch the last couple paragraphs about Ron Paul.
More Neocon Successes
No review of the rise of neoconservative prominence is complete without noting the role played by William F. Buckley in bringing it about. In 1991, Buckley sponsored an invitation-only, three-day conference for two dozen conservative Republicans. Enthusiastically described by Kristol, the event saw attendees arrive as conservatives first, but “by the end of the meeting, a significant reversal had occurred.... Most were Republicans first and conservatives second.” They would now accept increased taxation, more federal controls, and the use of America’s military under UN auspices to build George H.W. Bush’s “new world order.” (Though Bush never defined the term “new world order,” it has long been known to mean socialism and world government, the cardinal tenets of neoconservatism.) Newly identifiable neocons in the first Bush administration included Defense Department leaders Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle. Delighted to be in charge of the world’s only remaining superpower, they set out to use America’s armed might to force their brand of “democracy” on the world.
Buckley’s little-known preference for the neocon agenda, both its foreign and domestic policy elements, deserves mention. In 1952, while he was serving in the CIA in what he later termed a “deep cover” assignment in Mexico, the widely accepted leader of American conservatism wrote in Commonweal magazine of the need for “Big Government for the duration,” and for “large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards and the attendant centralization of power in Washington — even with Truman at the reins of it all.” Even before Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and other neocon luminaries, and even before anyone had even heard the term neoconservative, Buckley was promoting its agenda. More than any other individual, Buckley succeeded during 50 years of clever duplicity in taking real conservatives away from their roots and into the grasp of the neocons.*
In a 1996 edition of The Essential Neoconservative Reader, editor Mark Gerson jubilantly observed, “The neoconservatives have so changed conservatism that what we now identify as conservatism is largely what was once neoconservatism. And in so doing, they have defined the way vast numbers of Americans view the economy, their polity, and their society.” In that same year, veteran conservative columnist Sam Francis observed:
As the Cold War wound down, “exporting democracy” and opposing “isolationism” became the major neoconservative foreign policy goals, reflected in their almost universal support for NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, and United Nations “peacekeeping” missions.
Francis and Gerson, holders of completely contradictory views about the neocon takeover, were nevertheless in solid agreement about its success. A steady stream of neocon policy began flowing from such Washington-based think tanks as the Committee on the Present Danger, American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century, the National Endowment for Democracy, and more.
When the 1994 elections produced huge Republican victories, Irving Kristol considered the stunning GOP success a neocon triumph. He knew, as many others did not, that GOP leader Newt Gingrich would be his ally. The Georgia Republican who was to become House Speaker had backed federal aid to education, land controls, foreign aid, NAFTA, GATT (which became the WTO), the Mexican bailout, the Export-Import Bank, the use of U.S. military force to “democratize” the world, the United Nations, and whatever else would take America away from limited government and non-intervention. His vaunted “Contract with America” was largely inconsequential fluff that kept the GOP from relying on the Constitution. Buckley and the neoconservatives were delighted, and the proud owner of National Review saluted Gingrich as a “greatly gifted” leader. There was little objection from the Clinton White House.
In 2003, one Republican congressman who has never been swept into the neoconservative camp addressed his colleagues in a speech entitled “Neoconned.” Dr. Ron Paul noted that replacing the Clinton Democrats with the George W. Bush Republicans “has not made a difference.” He attributed the lack of change to neoconservatives who had “diligently worked their way into positions of power and influence.” Among the modern-day neocons he named were Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, Bill Bennett, Frank Gaffney, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld. The redoubtable Texan then summed up the problem facing our nation:
Neoconservatism is not the philosophy of free markets and a wise foreign policy. Instead, it represents big-government welfare at home and a program of using our military might to spread their version of American values throughout the world.
In his speech, Paul condemned American Enterprise leader Michael Ledeen’s 1999 characterization of the attack on Pearl Harbor as a “lucky” event that led our nation away from neutrality. Ledeen had actually longed for another such event that could be used to entangle our nation in more overseas adventures. Paul also pointed to the Project for the New American Century’s hope expressed in 2000 for “a Pearl Harbor event” that he said “would galvanize the American people to support their ambitious plans to ensure political and economic domination of the world.”
Paul never accused neocons of support for or knowledge of the 9/11 event, but he stated very clearly that it has been used “to promote an agenda that strict constitutionalists and devotees of the Founders of this nation find appalling.”
After listing 17 neocon beliefs, each of which he rejects, the Texas congressman urged that those responsible for fastening neoconservatism on America must be “exposed” and “their philosophy of pervasive government intrusion rejected.” Count this author and this magazine in solid agreement.

Chomsky/Buckley is just amazing. And, as you said, Chomsky is "dead on." Buckley, having read Chomsky's book, is ready to duke it out. But, Chomsky is so quick and nimble with both language and with his thoughts that he simply shreds all of Buckley's parries.

We do not need more tyranny in america. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVDBPsluiSg

A look back at some of our government activity's in the past reveal a lot about what goes on in Washington to day. .................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suS5BitLqvU&feature=related ....... .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmxo44Ra8Kw ..... We need a president and a congress that does not use unsuspecting Americans to experiment on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jDBLLMI7Q8&feature=related The way the government experiments on people needs to be revolted against. Join the Ron Paul revolution.