Neoconservatism: RIP
Salon
by Gary Kamiya
11/14/06
The neoconservatives who dreamed up America's Iraq nightmare are rushing desperately about, searching for scapegoats. Their favorite whipping boy is yesterday's jutting-jawed hero, Donald Rumsfeld, who has been unceremoniously tossed onto the scrapheap. But they also blame the National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Paul Bremer, Gen. Tommy Franks and George W. Bush himself. The only thing they don't blame is the actual culprit -- neoconservative ideology itself. The neocon finger-pointing over who lost Iraq, recently showcased in Vanity Fair, obscures the fact that Bush's war was a laboratory in which their doctrine was tested -- and completely failed. This failure was manifested on the ground and confirmed by the midterms. Most Americans don't even know what neoconservatism is, but they know a failure when they see it -- and they decisively rejected it... [subscription or ad view required]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2006/11/14/neocons
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Neocons, RIP?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar76.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neoconservatism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Hadar
by Gary Kamiya
11/14/06
The neoconservatives who dreamed up America's Iraq nightmare are rushing desperately about, searching for scapegoats. Their favorite whipping boy is yesterday's jutting-jawed hero, Donald Rumsfeld, who has been unceremoniously tossed onto the scrapheap. But they also blame the National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Paul Bremer, Gen. Tommy Franks and George W. Bush himself. The only thing they don't blame is the actual culprit -- neoconservative ideology itself. The neocon finger-pointing over who lost Iraq, recently showcased in Vanity Fair, obscures the fact that Bush's war was a laboratory in which their doctrine was tested -- and completely failed. This failure was manifested on the ground and confirmed by the midterms. Most Americans don't even know what neoconservatism is, but they know a failure when they see it -- and they decisively rejected it... [subscription or ad view required]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2006/11/14/neocons
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Neocons, RIP?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar76.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Neoconservatism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Hadar
rudkla - 14. Nov, 16:10
