Second, it's safe to assume they want a pacified ME and tend to read it through the eyes of the present Israeli government.
John, the canard that the neocons are somehow the creatures of the Likud belongs in the same comforting-but-dumb bin as the all the 'Bush is stupid, he's being led by <fill in the blank>' op-eds.
The neocons came to their assessment of the dangers of terrorism, Islamic extremism and the governments that support it well before the current Israeli government was elected. Naturally, this makes them sympathetic to Israeli fears, and unsupportive of the Arafat regime. It does not make them boosters of Greater Israel or any other particular Likud or Moledet policy.
Third, what they don't want is democracy, meaning voting islamist governments into power in the ME. That would be democratic right now. But, since that would be counter to US interests, they don't want it.
As opposed, say, to being deeply counter to the interests of the people doing the voting, whose perceptions are badly skewed at the moment by being fed a steady diet of lies. |
