It's not an attribute of conservatism, it's an attribute of psychopathy. The interesting question is, why and how have the ranks of the "neocons" (which are not conservative in the slightest, but rather a subversion of an extreme ideological right) become increasingly filled with such a pathology over these last twenty-five or so years? The follow-up question is: what measures are now necessary to secure and preserve civilization itself from this intransigent growing sickness and the now abundantly manifest clear and present danger that it literally and actually poses to us all as well as common decency itself?