Libertarians are fierce defenders of civil liberties, putting them mush closer to the attitudes of ACLU members than those of the still influential GOP neo-conservatives.
The neo-conservatives are fretting that the Bush White House (which, lo and behold, they do not control) seems less than committed to their dream of reshaping the Middle East.
But even while he was still a Republican Senator, Hagel exhibited a sort of ecumenical internationalism that favored coalition warfare and collective security over the kind of unilateralism embraced by some neo-conservatives.
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Ayman Nour, the head of the oppositionist Ghad Party and the man heralded as the liberal democratic alternative to Mubarak by Washington neo-conservatives has called for the peace treaty to be abrogated.
But while Mr Hagel has many detractors among the neo-conservatives, he does not lack supporters in other political circles, including more centrist pro-Israeli groups such as J Street and the Israel Policy Forum.
" The former are increasingly caricatured as "neo-conservatives.
The modern party gets much of its intellectual energy from Jewish neo-conservatives, much of its organisational dynamism from Southern Baptists, and much of its social tone from the likes of Dennis Hastert, a former high-school wrestling coach.
By commenting approvingly that Obama has created a new climate in international politics, with emphasis on the role of diplomacy and of the United Nations, the Nobel Committee is clearly encouraging the new president, after just eight months in office, to continue with a style that Europeans find much more comfortable than that of Bush and the neo-conservatives.
The Alliance is a bold effort to reshape Canada's right by merging Reform, a federal neo-conservative party of Albertan origin, with sections of the Progressive Conservatives.
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