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To: lurqer who wrote (16293)	4/3/2003 6:27:47 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Neocons like Goldberg, Reiland are imperialists By Bill Ravotti Guest Columnist The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Monday, March 31, 2003 pittsburghlive.com <<...The neoconservatives are some of the most arrogant and power-hungry people around. Far from believing in liberation, they seek to conquer to rule. Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary, seeks an “imperial mission for America, whose purpose would be to oversee the emergence of successor governments in the region" and to “find the stomach to impose a new political culture on the defeated” Islamic world. Is this liberation? The neoconservatives have an utter disdain for the sovereignty of other nations and believe they have been granted the divine authority to utilize the U.S. military to tear down and recreate the Middle East in their own image, as some sort of utopian ‘yes-man’ democratic colony. William Bennett, a day after 9/11, wanted to invade Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and China. Goldberg, who never got close to the military himself, thinks this of U.S. foreign policy, “Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show we mean business.” Some, including Trib columnist Ralph Reiland, have called for a “War of Civilization” between the Arab world and the U.S. and Israel with “Iraq as the first step.” Ironically, this is the same War of Civilization that al-Qaida’s bin Laden seeks. This neoconservative doctrine is an imperialistic recipe designed for disaster, and destined to lead America into the twilight zone of perpetual war for an illusionary peace with a global coalition of ever-expanding enemies...>>