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[Comte de Saint-Germain]

Oh yeah him, but his text, Buckley, puts me to sleep.

Can't blame you there. However, the problem is not so much with conservative thinkers as much as it is that the right in America is anti-intellectual. This means that the Republican party has done everything in its power to cleanse itself of them, nor do they pop up in the media.

If we are talking about neo-conservatism, we are talking about US interventionism abroad, which I think a lot of liberals are against. I wouldn't call the war in Iraq an issue liberals feel very positive about, even though it was in support of the Kurdish socialists and communists -- it's been interesting, though disappointing, to see the response of the intellectual and political left when it comes to actual solidarity.

What is the liberal view of the UN? What is the conservative view of the UN? How have the liberals responded to Kofi Annan - a person selected for his skin colour, not his abilities - or the fact that various institutions belonging to the UN - human rights council - are passing 'recommendations' that contradicts any decent international law on freedom of expression? Do we see left intellectuals discussing the corruption of the UN and what to do with it in any useful way?

The liberal intelligentsia has dropped the ball on many an occasion, and let's not pretend that Noam Chomsky represents the wide left in the US, despite how many times he is evoked as a leftist intellectual. Ask him whether he would like to see Henry Kissinger brought to justice, and why the left - that is in power in the US - hasn't even dreamt of it.