Weekly Post #3

This week in class we talked about neo-conservatism and what it means including examples from the readings we have done and the article we had to read about neo-conservatism. The way I see neo-conservatism is that it has some liberalism aspects. I decided to look for an article that would talk about the current issues and may have included neo-conservatism. To my surprise The Washington Post had a recent article (September 13, 2012) about how presidential candidate Mitt Romney avoids the talk about neo-conservatism and everything dealing with this topic. This includes the war in Iraq that has been going on for years because America saw them as a threat; which is a neo-conservatism way to see the situation. The article tells how he (Romney) makes his speeches avoiding the topics of Iraq, the soldiers that are over there fighting the war and the issues that have risen about the murdering of the U.S ambassador of America in Libya. Not only does he not talk about the important issues that America has with other countries, he also bad talks our former President Obama. Romney is not clear about his perspectives in many things like neo-conservatism but not only that, but also the economy here in the USA. By not talking about the war in Iraq, Romney is showing the people of America that he has no plan if he does become president and will not try to stop or think about it with the importance that it does have. To me neo-conservatism is important because depending on this, USA may be in danger, and we do not want a president that has no plan if that is ever the case in the next four years.