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Trump
And The Neocon Warhawks
By Daniel
McAdams
March 03, 2016
"Information
Clearing House"
- "RPI"
- The neocons are renowned for their courage on the
battlefield. There is no keyboard they are afraid to
finger. No pen they won't commandeer. When the
battle cry is sounded, they unhesitatingly push the
"on" button at their computers and saddle up for
battle. Off with the loafers and under the desk!
"Caution to the wind! Bring in a wine spritzer,
dammit, I'm off to waaar!"
While this Institute and this column most definitely
do not take a position on any candidate and in fact
your correspondent views voting itself with disdain
in today's corrupt US political system, it is
impossible to avoid viewing with extreme amusement
the collective neocon hysterical breakdown over the
possibility that voters of the Republican Party -- a
party neocons crashed en masse starting in
1972 and especially 1976 -- may be sending as their
nominee for president a man who has committed the
cardinal sins of:
1) Stating
the obvious that the Iraq war was brought to us
by the liars of the neoconservative movement and
has been a total disaster for the rest of us who
are forced to pay for their fantasies of world
domination.
2)
Suggesting that he might actually speak with
Russian President Vladimir Putin to see if
US/Russia differences can be worked out without
a potentially world-ending nuclear war.
3) Though
arguing that he is hugely pro-Israel,
nevertheless suggesting that if the US is to
play a role in the Israel/Palestine issue (this
Institute would argue that it should not), the
US side should, in the interests of any chance
of success, take a neutral role in the process.
4)
Wondering why on earth Obama listened to idiotic
neocon advice and overthrew Libya's strongman
leader only to see the red carpet laid down for
ISIS.
5)
Suggesting that it may be a good thing that
Russia be bombing ISIS into oblivion and that we
might want to just sit back and let that happen
for once.
These positions are mortal sins in the Church of the
Neoconservative and the only penance is an intense
round of Stalinist
self-criticism and ultimately political exile
because one is never trustworthy again once one
violates the neocon commandments. There is no
purgatorio in the neocon Inferno.
So in Politico today, Michael Crowley
writes that the "Neocons Declare War on Trump."
How do they propose to prosecute their war? As
usual, with their well-known bravery. They are
planning a mass exodus from the Republican Party to
support their sister-in-arms Hillary Clinton, who as
president plans to change the official motto of the
United States from "In God We Trust" to "We
Came, We Saw, He Died."
Tomorrow the neocons plan to
launch their version of a nuclear missile -- the
dreaded "strongly-worded letter" -- to warn
Republican voters that if they continue to flirt
with the foreign policy apostate Trump, the neocons
will take their toys and go home to the Democratic
Party. Republican voters at that point are supposed
to wail and gnash their teeth at the prospect of
supporting a party without bloodsucking neocons
calling the shots.
Leading the strongly-worded letter campaign is Dov
Zakheim, who as George W. Bush's Comptroller of the
Pentagon somehow
lost track of a trillion or so dollars. It's a
safe bet Zakheim is not spending his retirement from
government service in a double-wide trailer
somewhere. Top military officers will retire,
screams Zakheim, if under Trump the US abandons the
neocon vision of "American exceptionalism." Perhaps
so. And what would they do without enormously
well-paid positions in the military-industrial
complex to retire to?
The neocons are gambling that the American voter's
fury at Washington does not extend to their foreign
policy adventurism. They are gambling that another
PNAC-style harshly-worded letter will awaken
America from its temporary dalliance and shock it
back into its abusive relationship with the
soft-skinned and well-perfumed keyboard warriors who
eagerly send America's sons and daughters to be
slaughtered in wars that achieve nothing but the
ascendence of new "bad guys" used to justify
ever-more wars. And all of it pays very nicely for
them.
Will voters again try to
kick that football? Or will they kick the
neocons instead?
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Institute.
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