http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=103829
Neonuts
For them, Afghanistan and Iraq will not suffice. They want to take out
Syria and Iran, and speed full steam ahead towards World Wars III and
IV. The Weekly Standard asks simply, "Why wait?"
According to Newt Gingrich, there is no need to wait at all. On Meet
the Press this past Sunday he offered that the Israel-Hezbollah
conflict "... is, in fact, World War III" and "the U.S. ought to be
helping...."
And how might the US help fight Newt's World War? The Weekly Standard
provides the answer: "It would be easier to act sooner rather than
later. Yes, there would be repercussions - and they would be healthy
ones, showing a strong America that has rejected further appeasement."
George Will - not exactly your run-of-the-mill, card-carrying liberal
- describes the neocons as "so untethered from reality as to defy
caricature."
But what has caused them to become so completely unhinged (even more so
than before, if one can imagine that possibility)?
With the deteriorating occupation in Iraq and a resurgent Taliban in
Afghanistan the neocons have been completely discredited. Meanwhile,
the Bush administration is engaging in a "muddled multilateralism" -
not quite pursuing diplomacy but not acting unilaterally at the whims
of the Decider et al., either.
And this simply infuriates them. As Danielle Pletka of the American
Enterprise Institute (AEI) told The Washington Post, "I don't have a
friend in... any part of the conservative foreign policy establishment
who is not beside themselves with fury at the administration."
Well, perhaps The Weekly Standard staffers, editors, and allies at the
likes of AEI will harness some of their "fury", put on flak jackets and
(poorly) funded armor (is there enough to go around after Iraq?), and
go fight their own failed war in defense of their own failed ideology.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will remain here on this planet.
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So now we have "Nuts" and "Newts"? Like two separate packs of gorillas
chest thumping before they mindlessly start killing things..(oops,
that's right. The "Decider" is well ahead on that front.)
Well, if they have their way the last line may not hold true...for any
of us. (Looked at the thermometers lately?)
Posted by LEFTOFCENTER 07/20/2006 @ 5:10pm | ignore this person
wow, kvh sort of became unhinged herself! but that's good, we need more
of this....
Posted by DARLADOON 07/20/2006 @ 5:15pm | ignore this person
Darla
I watched old Newt last weekend...kinda frightening, the thought that
there isn't enough killing going on apparently. Thinks we ought to be
more engaged in pointless bloodshed (or dare I say, MORE pointless
bloodshed)
Posted by LEFTOFCENTER 07/20/2006 @ 5:57pm | ignore this person
Well since so many neo-cons like to draw comparisons between Iraq and
World War II, I guess their new labeling is only fitting. See! They are
both world wars!!
Posted by HMAN23 07/20/2006 @ 6:11pm | ignore this person
I agree. If William Kristol, Richard Perle, and Daniel Feith, and all
the rest want to go wage World War IV, V, whatever, hand them revolvers
with several shots of ammunition each and airdrop them into Damascus
and Tehran.
The rest of the world will be better off with the inevitable results,
and, while it may not be martyrdom these lunatics seek, they'll find
their war.
Posted by ZERO 07/20/2006 @ 6:22pm | ignore this person
And, yes, they've been hugely discredited. The trouble is that, unlike
most groups that are discredited, the "neoconservatives" refuse to
declare victory and run away. They remain, stubbornly, attempting to
drag the world down the tubes with them.
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Harry
(see all of Harry Hope's excellent posts as they break, put this link
in your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the
author Harry Hope sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
With history moving so fast these days you might also want to sort
Harry Hope's posts by "relevance" particulary if the lies and
misdirection that we are all being sujected to by the extensive Bush
Crime Family Propagand machine are confusing you. Using the "sort by
relevance" option has a way of letting you take in the big picture.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
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