Those only vaguely familiar with the
neoconservative movement may wonder isn't this ancient history? Weren't the
neoconservatives a part of the Bush administration, and, as such, aren't they
now past tense? The answer to both questions is an unequivocal no. Than there
those who are clueless and are busy scratching their heads wondering what I am
talking about. Is this another one of those conspiracy theories? No, it is definitely
not.
This movement is as strong today as it has
ever been, the only difference being they do not control the White House as
they did during the Bush era. Far more important, there is an imminent threat
they will once again control the White House beginning in Jan. 2013. This is
not simply a matter of history and curiosity.
Years of research into the neoconservative
phenomenon are the basis for this report. It is hoped everyone reads this
carefully. The issue is extremely
important and may affect the very existence of our nation as we know it. You
will see its vital importance after reading the entire article.
Speaking of history, there is a quote I
have lived by for over a half century. Those who forget the past are
condemned to relive it.
Many informed Americans dread the return of
the neocons to the White House. They engineered an attack on Afghanistan, a
nation that did not attack us on 9/11, a criminal organization did. Today the
Afghan war is an unmitigated disaster and victory is no longer a goal. It has
become the longest war in our history, and we are not leaving until 2024. Next
the neocons decided to attack Iraq, an illegal invasion based on invented
causes. We lost that war, and the country with the third largest oil reserves
in the world is now aligned with our dreaded enemy, Iran, the country with the
second largest oil reserves in the world, because we eliminated Iran's greatest
foe, the Hussein regime in Iraq. The ultimate cost of the two disastrous wars
is estimated to be between three and five trillion dollars. Our National Debt
has reached the stratosphere. The human costs and the devastation wrought on
two nations who posed no national security risks to the U.S. are off the scale.
No wonder informed Americans fear a return of a neocon sympathizer to the White
House. Taking into account the last time that happened, such an occurrence
would be unbelievable and totally irrational.
Notice I said informed Americans.
Therein lies the problem. Despite the fact that the neocons controlled the
White House during the Bush administration, were able to manipulate Congress
from 2001 to 2007, and the Supreme Court became a conservative court due to two
Bush appointees, the neocons went unnoticed by the mass media. This has been
true largely throughout their existence. The mass media, scared to death of
being labeled "liberal," a job killer for sure, failed miserably in revealing
any details of this far right organization. Many can be excused for their total
ignorance of this movement.
To the mass media's shame, that movement is
no deep secret. It is not one of those shadowing organizations that are the
subject of conspiracy novels. There are volumes of information about this
movement. One just has to have the desire to look. How do think I know? I'm not
making this up.
It is hard to say when the movement
actually began. It actually sprang from American Jewish liberal roots with
personalities like Irving Kristol, the godfather
of the movement, and his son, William Kristol, also, Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Bell, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Nathan Glazer It might have begun earnestly
with Nixon's resignation as a consequence of the Watergate investigation.
Devout far right conservatives vowed never again will a Republican President
undergo such an indignity. They hijacked the conservative Jewish liberal
movement, who seemed willing, and their goal became controlling the media, the
White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Pretty lofty goals, but neocons
can never be accused of being meek.
Whenever it actually began, the movement
grew in strength during the Reagan, Bush, the First, and Clinton
administrations culminating in the creation of their charter formed from the Project for the New American
Century, or PNAC. Those four letters will generate a sheer volume of
information on any search engine. Let me save you from the search, but you are
more than welcome to do so. Essentially, the PNAC stated that neoconservatives
are attempting to build an American Empire, seen as successor to the British
Empire, its aim being to perpetuate a Pax
Americana. The PNAC clearly stated that, if necessary, the use of military
force should be used to achieve their goals. The PNAC also embraced the unitary
executive theory. It also stated that to launch their plans, what they needed
was a Pearl Harbor style event.
Enter 9/11. The neocons had their Pearl
Harbor event. Very soon after 9/11 Bush announced his Bush
Doctrine of preventive war. Already mentioned is a description of the
disastrous results of the two wars he launched pursuant to that doctrine. So,
what does the neoconservative movement have to do with all of this? Well,
consider this, charter members or ardent sympathizers of that movement in the
Bush White house include Donald Rumsfeld (SecDef), Paul Wolfowitz (deputy
SecDef and architect of the Iraq war), Douglas Feith (undersecretary of defense
and chief of the Office of Special Plans that provided the
false intelligence for war), Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor and
later SecState), Vice-President Dick Cheney and much of his staff " and
President George W. Bush. That's only the tip of the iceberg. There were dozens
in the Bush White House or advisors to the President who were charter members
of the PNAC. We have seen the results of their efforts, and the question can be
asked, do we want to see them again?
Ancient history, right, we are all sorry
for what happened, but we cannot change the past. Very true, we can't change
the past, but we can learn from the past, or we can condemn ourselves to
re-living it.
Former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt
Romney will be facing off with President Obama in November. Romney has so far
shied away from discussing foreign affairs in his campaign, stressing that the
economy and jobs is the primary interest of Americans voters. He does have a
point. But many are somewhat confused and wonder why he avoids foreign affairs
since that is the one prerogative the President has with impunity, not needing
the approval of Congress to act. This fact is even more apparent since the Bush
era when Bush assumed many powers, some unconstitutional, and these have been
passed on to the next President without a squeak from Congress. With this sort
of latitude and potential power, why is Romney avoiding foreign affairs?
The answer might be that, Romney is not
stupid. He is aware that some American voters may actually remember Bush's
disastrous neocon policies. Moreover, he is not unaware that, if one searches "neo-conservatism"
on the Internet, one gets 683,000 hits. All this combines with another problem
Romney has. He is viewed by many in the GOP as not being conservative enough.
That problem persists to this day.
So, Romney, not being stupid, came up with
a solution to the latter problem. He surrounded himself with neocons and with
their help wrote a white paper concerning foreign affairs on his vision of
America's future in the 21st Century. Titled An
American Century it is actually a tribute to the Project for the New
American Century. It is a reincarnation of the Bush era of a neoconservative
government. Aware of the disasters of the last such government, Romney, not
being stupid, avoids the issue entirely. This begs a question, in view of the
monumental failure of the last neocon White House, why does he support the
movement. There are two answers. One, he desperately needs the support of the
far right wing of his party.
Two, he believes in the dream of an
American Empire and Pax Americana in our 21st Century.
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