Let's take a quick review of what facts we DO know:
* Neoconservative movement forms in the wake of Leo Strauss.
* Neocons are disgusted with liberalism and a society promoting individualism and want a return to a "national identity". They determine they need to frame the struggle as a fight by America (good) against the evil in the world. Classic good vs. evil tale.
* Neocons latch onto the Soviets as their boogeyman. They exaggerate claims that the Soviets are ramping up nuclear arms production. I believe Rumsfeld (when he was Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford) said about the Soviets' nuclear weapons programs, "They've been busy, busy, busy, busy." (Yes, I'm reminded of the evil magician from the animated Frosty the Snowman). This gets the US to start outspending the Soviets and leading to a cottage industry in Hollywood (ie. - War Games). Soviets invade Afghanistan and the US joins forces with the Mujahedeen, calling them freedom fighters (keep that in mind). The US gives the CIA $1billion and a crapload of Stinger missiles and funnels the cash thru Pakistan's ISI to the Mujahedeen. Along comes bin Laden who's just itching to burn thru his wad of familial money. The others let him play along as he's loaded. We also have Zawahiri who's really the hard-nosed Islamist and wants to install Islamic states all over the Mideast and SW Asia (Zawahiri being a follower of the executed Sayyid Qutb who, like the neocons, saw the liberal societies of the west as a virus against a nationalistic society).
The Soviet/Afghani war wages on for a few years. The US supplied training, satellite photos of Soviet troop locations (keep that in mind, too), etc. Gorbachev enters the scene and he sees the Soviet Union as it really is: a decrepit, failing state and decides to withdraw from Afghanistan in some manner as to still honor the tens of thousands who've died in Afghanistan (ring any bells there?). Vladimir Pozner tried to negotiate a settlement with the US to install a stable government in Afghanistan. The Soviets knew an Islamic state would result and they didn't want that. However, Richard Perle said, "They arrived in a matter of days, on Christmas Eve; they can leave by Christmas Eve" (paraphrasing). The Soviets eventually withdraw and the war is over.
Mujahedeen declares victory over a Superpower and feel their ideology has been validated. Now they can install an Islamic state in Afghanistan.
:woohoo:
The neocons also declare victory in that their training and support helped defeat the Soviets. They also feel their ideology was validated in that "evil" was defeated. Neocons leave Mujahedeen behind in the dust.
* Iran/Iraq war flares up. Rumsfeld shakes Saddam's hand. US supplies Iraq with satellite imagery of Iranian troop placement (ah HA). US companies supply Iraq with chemical weapon pre-cursors.
* Concurrently, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad ramp up their violence and start attacking govts. When that fails to topple the western-friendly governments, they move to attacking fellow Muslims as obviously it is *they* who are infected with liberal individualism and don't understand Islamic states must be setup in order to "save" the soul and live righteously. Their violence escalates and creates a backlash against them which mutes their efforts for a while.
* Saddam invades Kuwait. Neocons want to continue on into Baghdad but Poppy Bush ain't playing along.
* The neocons need a new boogeyman. The Soviet Union is gone but they latch onto something they think will work. Apparently, the Soviet remnants are behind all of the terror attacks in the world. Documentation is obtained to prove their point and they go to the CIA to take it to the President. Trouble is, the CIA recognizes the "documentation" as their own propaganda! They know it's a farce and tell the neocons to fack off. Along comes William Casey, freshly appointed to head the CIA and he falls for the neocons' "proof" hook, line, and sinker.
* Meanwhile, the neocons try to entrench their power in the US by enlisting the mindless sheep of the Religious Right. This turns the 1992 RNC into something nearer a Salem witch trial than a political convention in the Land of the Free. The quick move to the far-right scares the bejeezus out of moderate Republicans and Bill "Big Dog" Clinton becomes President.
* Obviously, a Democratic President is an affront to the neocon mentality and the work begins quickly and in earnest to destroy Clinton. Lies are concocted re: Whitewater, Vince Foster, etc. (David Brock even comes forward later to declare they were all lies). Ken Starr (of the Federalist Society) spends $70 million to find wrongdoing re: Whitewater but only finds Monica and the infamous cigar. The Mighty Clenis is born! And impeached. The "moral depravity" of the liberals is shown before the whole world. (We'll choose to ignore the moral depravity of the aforementioned Religious Right - <ahem> Jim Bakker? Jimmy Swaggart?)
* Terror attacks hit the US in 1993, Khobar Towers attacked in 1996 and US embassies in Africa attacked in 1998. The neocons have their new boogeyman and start pushing for "regime change" in the Middle East and form the Project for a New American Century (the infamous PNAC). It's comprised of the same Straussians (Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Ledeen, Kristol, Fukiyama, Feith, Hadley, etc.) that have flitted in and out of power since the Nixon administration and have so far struck out on the truth in every aspect of their machinations. They create Al Qaeda as a worldwide network organized by bin Laden in order that they can bring the fight to bin Laden under US laws meant to snare mafia types.
* 2000 and the Fortunate Son (our dear catapaulting Propagandist who previously stated no nation-building) reaches the White House. The neocons are in like Flynn and grab the top spots at the Pentagon, in the White House, and throughout the Cabinet. The war machine starts warming up. But, trouble is, where will it go? What they need is a target. BOOM! Sept. 11. "Al Qaeda" strikes the US. "Al Qaeda" is in tiny little Afghanistan. Easy pickings. Neocons contract out the job to Islamists' local enemies, Afghani warlords and the Northern Alliance. Some Tomahawks are launched for good TV back in the States. bin Laden is allowed to escape (don't want to kill off that boogeyman just yet) while "Al Qaeda" (which in reality is mostly just the Mujahedeen which don't care about the US...they're fighting for Islamic states in the Middle East) get rounded up by the Northen Alliance and the US kills them or ships them to Gitmo to rot w/o trial for years.
* War on Terror is loosening its grip on American minds. The public needs a new bad guy. Ah HA! Saddam! He's been sitting over there, contained, for a decade. Let's bomb his ass! Neocons go on a major propaganda spree, bringing in professional catapaulters like Chalabi. Hadley works up some fake documents in Italy to make it look like Saddam wants to buy yellowcake and Chalabi feeds "defectors" to the neocons for some unearned million$ All kinds of side activity go on with various members of the Republican party in Congress and outside of Congress, the details of which we're slowly uncovering (Valerie Plame, Sibel Edmonds, warrantless wiretaps, etc.) Iraq was supposed to greet the US with flowers and kisses and then the next step on the roadway to democracy would be Iran. However, the Islamists who've been lying dormant for the last several years and either survived Afghanistan or weren't there start flocking to Iraq to fight the western evil directly. This leads to a protracted "insurgency" in Iraq (comprised of the very same freedom fighters that were neocon allies in Afghanistan in the 1980s!) which delays the plans to invade Iran (John Bolton must have the worst case of blue balls in the history of the human race).
That pretty much leads us up to today's propaganda directed at Iran.
It's the Neocons (PNAC) that are behind our govt's foreign policy. The Presidents come and go but the neocons remain entrenched in power. It is THEY who must be stopped. And they must be stopped now!
There's another twist to this in that an Unholy Trinity has converged (Neocons, Norquist/small gov't camp/Religious Right). They are at their peak of power now and they aren't going to relent easily.
Add in the cessation of the publication of M3, the propping up of the stock and bond markets, the twisting of employment numbers to make it look good, rising inflation, rising trade deficits, rising fiscal deficits, decreasing wage earning power for average Americans, negative savings rates and a host of other economic issues and the writing is on the wall: the neocon dream is a complete and utter failure and the convergence of the Unholy Trinity is leading the United States of America right over the precipice and into economic collapse.
Ready for soup lines? Grab a copy of Grapes of Wrath to bide your time while you wait.
2/19
And, look at this, FRANCIS FUKUYAMA laments the Neoconservative movement, says it's in shambles
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magaz...r=1&incamp=article_popular&oref=slogin
* Neoconservative movement forms in the wake of Leo Strauss.
* Neocons are disgusted with liberalism and a society promoting individualism and want a return to a "national identity". They determine they need to frame the struggle as a fight by America (good) against the evil in the world. Classic good vs. evil tale.
* Neocons latch onto the Soviets as their boogeyman. They exaggerate claims that the Soviets are ramping up nuclear arms production. I believe Rumsfeld (when he was Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford) said about the Soviets' nuclear weapons programs, "They've been busy, busy, busy, busy." (Yes, I'm reminded of the evil magician from the animated Frosty the Snowman). This gets the US to start outspending the Soviets and leading to a cottage industry in Hollywood (ie. - War Games). Soviets invade Afghanistan and the US joins forces with the Mujahedeen, calling them freedom fighters (keep that in mind). The US gives the CIA $1billion and a crapload of Stinger missiles and funnels the cash thru Pakistan's ISI to the Mujahedeen. Along comes bin Laden who's just itching to burn thru his wad of familial money. The others let him play along as he's loaded. We also have Zawahiri who's really the hard-nosed Islamist and wants to install Islamic states all over the Mideast and SW Asia (Zawahiri being a follower of the executed Sayyid Qutb who, like the neocons, saw the liberal societies of the west as a virus against a nationalistic society).
The Soviet/Afghani war wages on for a few years. The US supplied training, satellite photos of Soviet troop locations (keep that in mind, too), etc. Gorbachev enters the scene and he sees the Soviet Union as it really is: a decrepit, failing state and decides to withdraw from Afghanistan in some manner as to still honor the tens of thousands who've died in Afghanistan (ring any bells there?). Vladimir Pozner tried to negotiate a settlement with the US to install a stable government in Afghanistan. The Soviets knew an Islamic state would result and they didn't want that. However, Richard Perle said, "They arrived in a matter of days, on Christmas Eve; they can leave by Christmas Eve" (paraphrasing). The Soviets eventually withdraw and the war is over.
Mujahedeen declares victory over a Superpower and feel their ideology has been validated. Now they can install an Islamic state in Afghanistan.
:woohoo:
The neocons also declare victory in that their training and support helped defeat the Soviets. They also feel their ideology was validated in that "evil" was defeated. Neocons leave Mujahedeen behind in the dust.
* Iran/Iraq war flares up. Rumsfeld shakes Saddam's hand. US supplies Iraq with satellite imagery of Iranian troop placement (ah HA). US companies supply Iraq with chemical weapon pre-cursors.
* Concurrently, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad ramp up their violence and start attacking govts. When that fails to topple the western-friendly governments, they move to attacking fellow Muslims as obviously it is *they* who are infected with liberal individualism and don't understand Islamic states must be setup in order to "save" the soul and live righteously. Their violence escalates and creates a backlash against them which mutes their efforts for a while.
* Saddam invades Kuwait. Neocons want to continue on into Baghdad but Poppy Bush ain't playing along.
* The neocons need a new boogeyman. The Soviet Union is gone but they latch onto something they think will work. Apparently, the Soviet remnants are behind all of the terror attacks in the world. Documentation is obtained to prove their point and they go to the CIA to take it to the President. Trouble is, the CIA recognizes the "documentation" as their own propaganda! They know it's a farce and tell the neocons to fack off. Along comes William Casey, freshly appointed to head the CIA and he falls for the neocons' "proof" hook, line, and sinker.
* Meanwhile, the neocons try to entrench their power in the US by enlisting the mindless sheep of the Religious Right. This turns the 1992 RNC into something nearer a Salem witch trial than a political convention in the Land of the Free. The quick move to the far-right scares the bejeezus out of moderate Republicans and Bill "Big Dog" Clinton becomes President.
* Obviously, a Democratic President is an affront to the neocon mentality and the work begins quickly and in earnest to destroy Clinton. Lies are concocted re: Whitewater, Vince Foster, etc. (David Brock even comes forward later to declare they were all lies). Ken Starr (of the Federalist Society) spends $70 million to find wrongdoing re: Whitewater but only finds Monica and the infamous cigar. The Mighty Clenis is born! And impeached. The "moral depravity" of the liberals is shown before the whole world. (We'll choose to ignore the moral depravity of the aforementioned Religious Right - <ahem> Jim Bakker? Jimmy Swaggart?)
* Terror attacks hit the US in 1993, Khobar Towers attacked in 1996 and US embassies in Africa attacked in 1998. The neocons have their new boogeyman and start pushing for "regime change" in the Middle East and form the Project for a New American Century (the infamous PNAC). It's comprised of the same Straussians (Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Ledeen, Kristol, Fukiyama, Feith, Hadley, etc.) that have flitted in and out of power since the Nixon administration and have so far struck out on the truth in every aspect of their machinations. They create Al Qaeda as a worldwide network organized by bin Laden in order that they can bring the fight to bin Laden under US laws meant to snare mafia types.
* 2000 and the Fortunate Son (our dear catapaulting Propagandist who previously stated no nation-building) reaches the White House. The neocons are in like Flynn and grab the top spots at the Pentagon, in the White House, and throughout the Cabinet. The war machine starts warming up. But, trouble is, where will it go? What they need is a target. BOOM! Sept. 11. "Al Qaeda" strikes the US. "Al Qaeda" is in tiny little Afghanistan. Easy pickings. Neocons contract out the job to Islamists' local enemies, Afghani warlords and the Northern Alliance. Some Tomahawks are launched for good TV back in the States. bin Laden is allowed to escape (don't want to kill off that boogeyman just yet) while "Al Qaeda" (which in reality is mostly just the Mujahedeen which don't care about the US...they're fighting for Islamic states in the Middle East) get rounded up by the Northen Alliance and the US kills them or ships them to Gitmo to rot w/o trial for years.
* War on Terror is loosening its grip on American minds. The public needs a new bad guy. Ah HA! Saddam! He's been sitting over there, contained, for a decade. Let's bomb his ass! Neocons go on a major propaganda spree, bringing in professional catapaulters like Chalabi. Hadley works up some fake documents in Italy to make it look like Saddam wants to buy yellowcake and Chalabi feeds "defectors" to the neocons for some unearned million$ All kinds of side activity go on with various members of the Republican party in Congress and outside of Congress, the details of which we're slowly uncovering (Valerie Plame, Sibel Edmonds, warrantless wiretaps, etc.) Iraq was supposed to greet the US with flowers and kisses and then the next step on the roadway to democracy would be Iran. However, the Islamists who've been lying dormant for the last several years and either survived Afghanistan or weren't there start flocking to Iraq to fight the western evil directly. This leads to a protracted "insurgency" in Iraq (comprised of the very same freedom fighters that were neocon allies in Afghanistan in the 1980s!) which delays the plans to invade Iran (John Bolton must have the worst case of blue balls in the history of the human race).
That pretty much leads us up to today's propaganda directed at Iran.
It's the Neocons (PNAC) that are behind our govt's foreign policy. The Presidents come and go but the neocons remain entrenched in power. It is THEY who must be stopped. And they must be stopped now!
There's another twist to this in that an Unholy Trinity has converged (Neocons, Norquist/small gov't camp/Religious Right). They are at their peak of power now and they aren't going to relent easily.
Add in the cessation of the publication of M3, the propping up of the stock and bond markets, the twisting of employment numbers to make it look good, rising inflation, rising trade deficits, rising fiscal deficits, decreasing wage earning power for average Americans, negative savings rates and a host of other economic issues and the writing is on the wall: the neocon dream is a complete and utter failure and the convergence of the Unholy Trinity is leading the United States of America right over the precipice and into economic collapse.
Ready for soup lines? Grab a copy of Grapes of Wrath to bide your time while you wait.
2/19
And, look at this, FRANCIS FUKUYAMA laments the Neoconservative movement, says it's in shambles
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magaz...r=1&incamp=article_popular&oref=slogin
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