That long diatribe ends with "American Liberals just don't get it." This is coming from a neocon. Well, these neocons don't get it. They DO NOT speak for conservatives -- they are usurpers. A lot of conservatives are fed up just like "liberals" that the US government and both its major political parties are totally beholden to lobbies for Isreal, oil, and the weapons industry and do not speak for the American people, conservatives, or liberals -- they only speak for the lobbies that have bought and paid for the power that they have attained.
The US needs to wake up that they are NOT the guys with the white hats who can go and bomb away and sort out "the guys with the black hats" in the Middle East. This whole standing up to an "Islamic threat" doctrine is a total joke if it has any relation to past or present neocon policy. Saddam Hussein was secular. Syria is secular. Iran is at odds with the Osama-bin-Laden type Sunnis. Ally Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, supports militant Islamic schools and hopes to appease its radicals before they revolt. Pakistan, another US ally, has nuclear weapons and a population as radical and anti-US as any other in the world. Just cut all the crap and call it the way it is. All these "bad guys" that we are being goaded into loathing and attacking (Iran, Syria, etc) are nothing more than a very diverse group who are low-hanging fruit to destroy as threats or potential rivals to Israeli hegemony over the Middle East. Add to this equation that others want to control Middle East oil. And others want to sell the big fancy new weapons, make the service contracts, and make massive war profits. End of story. It is way simpler and more plausible than all this rhetorical neocon crap that couches things in clever words but laughibly and totally unconvincingly keeps trying to make parallels to WW II. Any parallels I see to WWII in current geopolitics have the neocons on the opposite side of the equation from the innocent victims of the last war who had to fight back. They are aggressors pure and simple, just like Hitler. |
