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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (34275)	7/8/2004 8:47:02 AM
From: redfish	Respond to of 81568

"Neocons," write the authors, "always emphasized unilateral military force ('preemptive and unilateral war') as America's first and often only option," ignoring America's "soft power," political or economic, as a means to attain international objectives. They quote neocon Max Boot, who wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he was "looking forward to a new era when America, like the British Empire, will always be fighting some war, somewhere, against someone." Unfortunately, the authors don't pay much attention to other forces for war such as the military industrial complex, big media (which thrives on war footage), think tank intellectuals (who thrive on TV exposure and lectures) and so on. (See "The Beltway Bombers.")The authors also neglect the fascination many intellectuals have with violence and war. In another era, Peter Viereck noted "how so many of the founders of Germany's National Socialist Party were artists, writers and academics … intellectuals who lusted for brute violence … 'bloody-minded professors' running amok in politics." The authors explain that initially neocons could not sell their agenda to President Bush and were "just another lobby trying to gain access." 9/11 was their godsend, after which their network, thanks to VP Cheney's having put so many of them in key government positions, could really push its agenda. antiwar.com