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and from Newsweek no less, a fess up on neocons

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Submitted by kate of the kiosk on Mon, 2010-01-25 19:20.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/232053/page/1

"...Only after September 11 did Bush really turn to them, they say, and then only because they offered the best explanation for what had just happened and the clearest blueprint for what to do about it. "

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I'm not too keen on this

Submitted by juandelacruz on Tue, 2010-01-26 01:21.

I'm not too keen on this article at all. While not everything stated is untrue, there is a dangerous current in it. An attempt to sell the neocons back to what I assume is the American public as its intended audience.

It seems to puff up neoconservatives and does nothing to acknowledge that some of the problems which it purports that the neoconservatives could solve were in fact caused by the neoconservatives themselves - Iraq in particular. It also perpetuates the false paradigm of conservatives vs. liberals. The article says that Obama pursued policies opposite the neocons but may now turn back to them due to on the ground realities in Iraq, Afghanistan and the US.

Obama was never really the opposite of Bush, policy wise. He even kept the incumbent defense secretary. He is only opposite in the way he is to appeal to the American public - sort of a new package for the same poisonous policy content. The article completely misses this point, but then coming from Newsweek, I did not expect it to.

Lastly what the article misses out I think is the essential commonality between the Bush2 and Obama regime, their utter infiltration by Zionist and corporatist policy advisers.

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 An attempt to sell the

Submitted by kate of the kiosk on Tue, 2010-01-26 03:42.

 An attempt to sell the neocons back

ya think? as acceptable, as necessary, as the only ones who can handle situation room,  the state of the war, etc.

yeah! although bringing forward some history, particulars, and names, (Kagan Klan) many names left out, like the new neocons in Obama's admin...Rahm and Peter for instance.  anyway, i thought it would be interesting to share some MSM newsweekly mag rag, which I have not touched in yeeeears!

 

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mere tools

Submitted by kate of the kiosk on Tue, 2010-01-26 03:46.

 

i got a little jolt out of this: 

"These are men for whom too much came too easily in life, so it was all too easy for them to view our troops as mere tools to implement their visions," says the military-affairs columnist Ralph Peters, a retired Army intelligence officer. (Peters is perplexed and irked when called a neocon himself. "I'm not qualified," he says. "I served in the military, didn't go to a prep school, didn't go to an Ivy League university, and didn't have a trust fund. And I'm physically fit.")

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