Originally Posted by lilHinault
Kunstler's a neocon, read his blog and read all his comments, particularly the ones around 9/11 and around the time Bush jr. went over there. He can "neocon" with the best of them, going on and on about how them islamo-fascists are gonna killus all.
To be fair to Kunstler, in the mental confusion right after 9/11, a lot of people temporarily sounded neo-con, even people that are not normally neo-con. Since Kunstler is critical of the notion that the U.S. can use military might to maintain dominance over fossil fuels and since he believes we need to become less dependent on fossil fuels, it's hard to make the label of neo-con stick to him.
Of course, one awkard thing about language is that the meanings of "liberal" and "conservative" have flipped around. The term "liberal" used to mean that one was quite liberal about having the government do favors for business, and the term "conservative" actually was related to conservation. Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican and a "conservative", and he was concerned with "conserving" natural resources and national resources. Roosevelt conserved lands and national forests. By this older definition of conservative, it might be possible to call Kunstler a conservative.