NeoConsevative roots were planted first by Rockefeller

[Liberty8]

http://www.republic-news.org/archive...an_adleman.htm

Rockefeller Sr, the founder of Standard Oil, used Christian missionaries in the American west to soften up and gather intelligence on the Native American communities that inhabited oil-rich land. In Thy Will Be Done: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, authors Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett point out that the evangelization process insidiously mollified the natives, weakening their communal social structure and subverting their will to defend themselves against exploitation. In 1902, Rockefeller’s right-hand man, Baptist preacher Fred Gates, wrote him a letter praising their exploits: “We are only in the very dawn of commerce, and we owe that dawn to the channels opened up by Christian missionaries. . . . The effect of the missionary enterprise of the English speaking peoples will be to bring them the peaceful conquest of the world." Little could Gates or Rockefeller have known just what a profound impact this symbiotic neo-conflation of seemingly disparate agendas would have on the trajectory of the American empire.

Read the whle article at the link above.

[raoul duke]

yeah, that whole premise is a pretty good stretch. is the business model roughly the same? maybe. but the "roots" of the neo-conservative movement were planted moreso by intellectuals in the 1940's and 50's which, some argue, was codified by william f. buckley's book god and man at yale. like i said there may be similarities in tactics or organization, but as a movement, any credit given to him for the neo-con movement is done so coincidentally and in hindsight.