Talk:Neoconservatism (disambiguation)

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There are two articles now, so there must be two talk files. See Talk:Neoconservatism (United States) for some issues that really belong here.

Mild update. It would be quite useful to review http://disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=neo-conservative which contains many international linkages not mentioned here, which should be.

There are also US-Israel, US-Canada, US-UK, US-Australia commonalities, each of which needs its own mentions, along with the Israel-Canada-UK cross-linkages. For instance, Conrad Black, a Canadian who hates Canada and lives in London, owns the Jerusalem Post, which calls for assassination of Yasser Arafat. And Izzy Asper, a Canadian who supports Israel unconditionally, owns Global TV which was the only Canadian TV network to send an "embedded reporter" to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Australians and US cooperate almost automatically in the War on Terrorism (just like the Vietnam War) and now seem to share an interventionist foreign policy, which Canada and the UK do not seem to share to the same degree (despite Anthony Blair, who is taking major heat for it that Bush and Howard aren't taking).

Its extremely good practice to disambig articles like this one where the words have tottaly different meanings in different areas.

[edit] Ireland and the UK

Somebody added text about Ireland and the UK to Neoconservatism, which is the page for the U.S. So I reformatted this disamib page to accommodate the text from the other article. Here are two issues with the content I brought in:

While it is a fact that Eoghan Harris supports many of the Bush administrations actions I don't know of a source that is calling him a "neo-conservative". First off there is a huge undue weight issue here. Secondly its completely unsourced. Thirdly connecting a supporter of the Bush administartion with being a support of neo-conservativism in general (without sources) is OR. I'm tagging the section as unsourced and as OR - if sources can't be found for it soon it will have to go--Cailil talk 23:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Then somebody added the two bare refs from www.independent.ie. -Colfer2 (talk) 22:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You made a good decision to move this material here Colfer2. But I think we need to examine the Eoghan Harris piece again. The bare refs are links to his Op-Ed in the Irish Independent. Somebody else - whoever added the material in the first place - has interpreted Harris's support for the US and G W Bush's policies as support for Neoconservatism or as Neoconservatism in and of itself. There are no sources for this assertion and unless Harris defines himself as a neo-con Wikipedia is the only place doing so. I think it's time to removed the unsourced--Cailil talk 18:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
OK, I;m deleting the 'Ireland' section. Google shows no support for Harris as a neocon outside of the blogospahere. -Colfer2 (talk) 18:49, 19 April 2008 (UTC)