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neoconservatism
"The Clinton administration would have done a
better job in handling Hurricane Katrina."-
William Kristol
"One reason
George W.
Bush is down in the polls is that he's giving the impression that he's
trying to change the subject from "our mistaken
invasion" to "building democracy in
Iraq." George W. Bush would serve himself and the county better if
he simply explained that he's been right all along." -
Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles
Times, March 23, 2006
"If you want to see when (neo)conservatives were in
trouble, go back 35 years to 1973, the year the Heritage
Foundation set up shop. We were just a handful of people in a few
rented rooms. At that time there were no cable outlets like Fox News.
There was no (neo)conservative talk radio, because the Fairness Doctrine was
still in effect." - Edwin Feulner of the Heritage
Foundation
"Look in any direction -
infrastructure crumbling,
schools underfunded, environment degrading, civil liberties eroding,
economy in recession - and you see the
fingerprints of the neo-cons." - Reverend Pete Sabey 03/08
"Most of the original neo-cons started out as left
wing New York Jewish intellectuals. The neo-cons,
mostly former Trotskyites, had
the good fortune of changing their minds about almost everything starting in
the mid 1960's, just as the political fortunes of the left began to collapse. "
- Jonathan ChaitPerhaps one of the best examples of the shift from
liberal to neoconservative can be seen in the person of
Alan Merril
Gottlieb.
"Neoconservatism usually has a
recognizable meaning. It connotes a potent moralism and idealism in world
affairs, a belief in America's exceptional role as a promoter of the principles
of liberty and democracy, a belief in
the preservation of American primacy and in the exercise of power, including
military power, as a tool for defending and advancing moralistic and idealistic
causes, as well as a suspicion of international institutions and a tendency
toward unilateralism. Even these deliberately polemical caricatures point to
something recognizable, a foreign
policy that combines an idealist's moralism, and even messianism, with a
realist's belief in the importance of power." -
Robert Kagan,
Spring 2008 World Affairs Journal, Neocon Nation:
Neoconservatism
Robert Kagan claims
in Neocon Nation that it has always been America's
alturistic purpose to "free"
backward social cultures from the reigning tyrant by "teaching them to elect good men".
Robert Kagan barely mentions
the fact that in each case
of military intervention America was mostly interested in protecting corporate
assets and enforcing contractual obligations - babbles or gadgets for
resources.
Throughout the 19th and 20th
centuries newspapers, beholden to interlocking corporate
boards of directors, supported by corporate advertising,
used the banner of freedom as
a propaganda foil to get the American population behind
every military intervention
requested.
Robert Kagan, messianist, says Zionism, "combines an
idealist's moralism, and even messianism, with a realist's belief in the
importance of power."
"They conceive evil deeds and then give birth to
sin." - Isaiah 59:4
"It is horrifying to me that the
White House is receiving advice
on Iraq from a magazine editor, William Kristol, and a right wing think tank
flunky, Frederick Kagan." -
Roderick Gates 01/07 "We have been drawn into
the world of permanent war by
these fools.
We allow fools to destroy the continuity of life, to tear
apart all systems - economic, social, environmental and political - that
sustain us.
Dostoevsky was not
dismayed by evil.
He was dismayed by a society that no longer had the
moral fortitude to confront the fools.
These fools are leading us over the
precipice." - Chris Hedges
"George W.
Bush was inaugurated president in January 2001.
The neocons who
were moving into key jobs in the Pentagon knew they would soon have new wars to
fight in the Middle East, with
invasion plans for
Afghanistan and Iraq ready to be pulled off the shelf.
But the US
had no economic engine available to generate the tax revenues Bush would need
for the planned wars.
At this moment Chairman
Alan Greenspan of
the Federal
Reserve stepped in.
Over a two year period from 2001-2003 the Fed
lowered interest rates by over 500 basis points.
Meanwhile, the federal
government removed all regulatory
controls on mortgage lending, and the housing bubble was on.
$4 trillion in new home loans were pumped
into the economy, much of it through subprime loans borrowers could not
afford." - Richard C. Cook
Frederick W. Kagan is a writer for
the American
Enterprise Institute.
He is brother to
foreign policy analyst
Robert Kagan.
Frederick W. Kagan, Robert
Kagan and their father Donald
Kagan are all signatories to the neoconservative Project for the New American Century
manifesto titled Rebuilding
America's Defenses (2000).
"Many of the first-generation
neo-cons originally were liberal Democrats, or even socialists and
Marxists, often Trotskyites.
They drifted to the right in the 1960s and 1970s as the Democratic Party moved
to the antiwar McGovernite left. And concern for Israel loomed large in that
rightward drift." - Stephen J. Sniegoski
Once the
Zionist communists of New York,
"Trotskyites," saw the wanning power of the Democratic party they changed their
chamaeleon skins (David Joel Horowitz) and became neo-cons - Republicans
nominally, corporatists
fully.
"Jewish elements provide the driving forces for both
Communism and
Capitalism (corporatism)." - Dr. Oscar
Levy
"It may be observed that both the extreme right and the extreme
left of the conventional political spectrum are absolutely collectivist. The national socialist
(for example, the fascist) and the
international socialist (for example, the Communist) both recommend
totalitarian
politico-economic systems based on naked, unfettered political power and
individual coercion. Both
systems require monopoly control of
society. An alternative concept of control ideas and
politico-economic systems would be
that of ranking the degree of individual freedom versus the degree of
centralized political control. Under such an ordering the
corporate welfare state and
socialism are at the same end of
the spectrum. Hence we see that attempts at
monopoly
control of society can have different
labels while owning common features." - Antony Sutton
"One major factor
that drew the neo-cons inexorably to the right was their
attachment to Israel and their growing frustration during the 1960s with a
Democratic party that was becoming increasingly opposed to American military
preparedness and increasingly enamored of Third World causes [e.g., Palestinian
rights]. In the Reaganite right's hard-line
anti-communism,
commitment to American military
strength, and willingness to intervene politically and militarily in the
affairs of other nations to promote democratic values (and American interests),
neocons found a political movement that would guarantee Israel's security." -
Benjamin Ginsberg
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the
ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the
gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But
the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers
rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his
victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the
baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation,
he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the
city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear.
The traitor is the plague." - Marcus
Tullius Cicero, in a speech to the Roman Senate, 42 BC
"I've read lists with the names of up to sixteen men with dual
citizenship among the big players in Washington.
It includes
Rabbi Dov S. Zakheim, who was
comptroller of DoD when it came up missing $2.3 trillion.
Paul
Dundes Wolfowitz, Richard Norman Perle,
Michael Chertoff, head of our
Homeland Security, George Tenet,
former head of our FBI, and
Eliot Abrams, who
played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal under
President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of State, and has served
George W.
Bush as Deputy Assistant to the President, and Deputy National
Security Advisor.
The list also includes
Donald Kagan, one of the chief
engineers of the Project for the New
American Century, as well as Marc Grossman,
Douglas Feith and a half
dozen others whose names aren't as well known (Richard Haas,
Kenneth Adelman, Edward
Luttwak, Robert Satloff, David
Frum, David Wurmser,
and Steven Goldsmith - Google "dual-citizen Israelis," and you'll see thousands
of sites.
David
Frum
Citizens of Israel determine national policy – in ways the
clearly benefit Israel.
Most of these men were contributors to that
Project for the New American
Century, which was published in September 2000 and which contained the
blueprint for our American imperialism that has come to life since 911.
Even the strongest critics
from the Left, however, tend to see the neoconservatives as true believers,
motivated exclusively by a commitment to the supremacy of American and Israeli
power that is so all-consuming they are prepared to sacrifice economic
interests in favor of "security."
But this distinction, as Naomi
Klein puts it, is both artificial and amnesiac.
The right to limitless
profit-seeking has always been at the center of neoconservative ideology.
With the War on Terror, the
neocons didn't abandon their corporatist economic goals; they found a new, much
more effective way to achieve them.
Of course these Washington
hawks – both our US citizens, and our dual-country US and Israeli citizens
– are committed to an imperial role for the United States in the world and
for Israel in the Middle East.
Both in Israel and the US, we now have a
state of endless war abroad, and a security state at home." - Davidson
Loehr
March
2004 Dual Israeli/American citizen and Rabbi,
Rabbi Dov S. Zakheim, resigned as
the Pentagon Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer when an audit of
the Pentagon budget was unable to account for the disappearance of $2.6
trillion including defense inventory of: 56 planes; 32 tanks; and 36 Javelin
missile command launch-units.
The records to be studied to investigate
this matter were destroyed in the attack on the Pentagon on 911.
"President Reagan's was the last American
government whose foreign
policy was not made by the Israeli-allied neoconservatives. The anti-Soviet
Committee on the Present Danger regarded the neocons as dangerous
lunatics. The neocons hated
President Reagan,
because he ended the Cold
War with diplomacy, when they desired a military victory over the
Soviet Union. "
- Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, Reagan
Administration 2008
1998
Neo-conservatives, many with close ties to Israel's Likud Party publish two
open letters to William Jefferson Clinton calling for
Saddam Hussein to be removed from
power.
The signatories included
Elliot Abrams,
John Bolton,
Douglas Feith,
William Kristol, Bernard
Lewis, Donald Henry Rumsfeld,
Richard Norman
Perle and Paul_Dundes_Wolfowitz.
"During
the Clinton administration, neoconservatives promoted their views from a strong
interlocking network of think tanks - the American Enterprise
Institute (AEI), Middle
East Media Research Institute (Memri), Hudson Institute,
Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, Middle East
Forum, Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs (JINSA), Center for Security Policy (CSP)
- which have had great influence in the media and which have helped to staff
presidential administrations. Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli
military intelligence, was a co-founder of the Middle East Media Research
Institute (Memri).
 
The other co-founder of
Memri, Meyrav Wurmser, was a member of the Hudson Institute,
while her husband, David
Wurmser, headed the Middle East studies department of American
Enterprise Institute.
Perle was both a "resident
fellow" at the American Enterprise
Institute and a trustee of the Hudson Institute. " - Stephen J.
Sniegoski
2001 The
cover of the Weekly Standard October 1,
2001 issue contained a single word - "WANTED" - above stark
black and
white photographs of
Usamah bin Mohammad bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein.
The
Weekly Standard issue was co-edited
Robert Kagan and
William Kristol and called for
regime change in Iraq immediately
after the Taliban is defeated.
That
same day, Charles Krauthammer argued in
the Washington Post that after
Afghanistan,
Syria should be next,
followed by Iran and
Iraq.
The Red Line and the Rat Line
"The war on
terrorism will conclude in
Baghdad." - Charles
Krauthammer
In the campaign to manipulate
intelligence I. Lewis
"Scooter" Libby visited the CIA several times to pressure analysts to find
evidence that would make the case for war while he helped prepare a
detailed briefing on the Iraq
threat.
The campaign to manipulate intelligence also involved two
organizations that were forged after September 11, 2001 and reported directly
to undersecretary of defense Douglas
Feith.
The Policy Counterterrorism
Evaluation Group was tasked to find links between
al-Qa`ida and Iraq
while the Office of Special Plans was
tasked with
creating propaganda that could be used to sell war with Iraq to the American
people.
Paul Dundes
Wolfowitz described in The Forward as "the most hawkishly pro-Israel
voice in the George Walker Bush
administration" was selected in 2002 as the first among fifty notables who
"have consciously pursued Jewish activism."
Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs gave
Paul_Dundes_Wolfowitz
its Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award for promoting a strong
partnership between Israel and America.
Jerusalem Post,
described Wolfowitz as "devoutly pro-Israel," names him "Man of the
Year" in 2003.
Paul Dundes
Wolfowitz is rewarded and becomes World Bank
president.
1978 "An arc of crisis stretches along the
shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a
region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation.
The
resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our
values and sympathetic to our adversaries." -
Zbigniew
Brzezinski
Bernard Lewis, a British
intelligence officer, claimed
that Islam is incompatible with materialism, and that they were destined to
clash, using the term, "Clash of
Civilizations."
Bernard Lewis played a critical role as professor,
mentor, and guru to two generations of academics, US and British intelligence
'specialists', think tank denizens,
and neoconservatives.
1979 "Bilderberg member,
Bernard Lewis, presented a
British-American strategy to the Bilderberg Group during the 1979 meeting,
which, "endorsed the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement behind Khomeini, in
order to promote balkanization of the entire Muslim Near East along tribal and
religious lines.
Lewis argued that the West should encourage autonomous
groups such as the Kurds,
Armenians,
Lebanese Maronites,
Ethiopian Copts,
Azerbaijani
Turks, and so forth.
The chaos would spread in what he termed an
Arc of Crisis,' which would spill over into the Muslim regions of the
Soviet Union." - Andrew G.
Marshall
1992 Bernard Lewis writes an article in Foreign
Affairs, the journal of the Council on
Foreign Relations, titled, "Rethinking the Middle
East."
Bernard Lewis claimed that
with a little push most of the artificially constructed states of the
Middle East which "have no real civil society to hold the polity together, no
real sense of common national identity or overriding allegiance to the
nation-state will disintegrate into a chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting
sects, tribes, regions and parties."
Iraq vs.
Iran,
Kurds vs.
Turks,
Shi'a vs. Sunni
March 7, 2006 "Israel, and the US, and all civilized nations
will win the war on
terror.
America experienced on September 11th, 2001, the terrorist
enemy is brutal and heartless.
The terrorists want to end all American
and Western influence in the Middle East.
Their goal in that region is to
seize control of a country, so they have a base from which to launch attacks
and wage war against governments that do not meet their demands.
Ultimately to establish a totalitarian empire that encompasses a region
from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all
the way around to Indonesia." -
Richard Bruce
Cheney, keynote address at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) policy conference
"There is a growing arc of nuclear powers
running from Israel in the west through an emerging Iran to Pakistan, India and
on to China, North Korea and Russia in the
east.
Unfortunately, that nuclear arc coincides with areas of
considerable instability which are of enormous interest to the US." - US Joint
Forces Command, Joint Operating Environment (JOE) document, November 2008,
Pentagon website
David B. Rivkin, Jr. legal opinions played a
significant role in developing the Reagan and Bush Administrations' regulatory
and legislative proposals affecting natural gas and electric utility industries
which lead to the California energy market debacle.
David B. Rivkin,
Jr. handled the development and implementation of President Bush's
de-regulatory initiatives, carried out during 1991-92 which included a leading
role in the development of Order 636, which introduced major changes to the
regulation of the interstate natural gas pipelines, and simultaneously served
as the Special Assistant for Domestic Policy to then Vice President
Dan Quayle.
David B. Rivkin,
Jr. served as Legal Advisor to the Counsel to the President; Deputy Director of
the Office of Policy Development (OPD); Associate General Counsel, US
Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for international, constitutional,
environmental and energy matters from 1990-91; Associate Executive Director and
Counsel of the President's Council on Competitiveness; a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations who legally supported the pardon of
I. Lewis "Scooter"
Libby.
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