A little more than a quarter of a century has passed since the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. Throughout the last 27 years, America has witnessed the triumph of neoconservatism, a movement that uses fundamentalist Christianity, militarism and a free market ideology to combat the dangers seen through their dualistic lens.
Perhaps in 2005 it could have been said that, had he lived another year, Reagan would likely applaud the effects of his and his successors market-rule policies. The housing boom was well underway, as was globalization.
The rising violence in the occupied nation of Iraq and the increasingly unstable nature of its democracy did not affect the neoconservatives. They remained steadfast in their belief in the imminent ?democratic peace?, their version of the Marxist world revolution.
However, by 2008, Reagan would probably stop applauding. Currently, more than two thirds of Americans ?disapprove? of the Iraq War, a conflict born out of the