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Sen. McCain: 'I'm Ashamed of America'

Monday February 23, 2015

John McCain, from his usual perch atop the Sunday morning political shows, was in a foul mood this week. While the German and French leaders continue to work for a political solution to the ongoing nightmare in Ukraine, McCain cannot believe that the US is not already at war in the country. It is a disgrace to the United States, said McCain, that President Obama has not already started shipping lethal weapons to the government in Kiev so that it can finish off the independence-seeking regions in east Ukraine. 

It is understandable that McCain is partial to the government in Kiev -- he personally helped put them in power. At the end of 2013, when protesters sought the overthrow of their elected government, McCain dropped in several times to provide moral support. "I am proud of what the people of Ukraine are doing," he said at the time. The "Energizer Bunny of interventionism" told the more extreme of the political elements gathered, "we are here to support your just cause."
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Bernard-Henri Lévy's 'Fair Wind' Blows Foul in Libya

Monday February 16, 2015

Pondering yesterday's gruesome beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians by an ISIS which has newly found a foothold in post-"liberated" Libya, it is hard to stop the mind from wandering back to Bernard-Henri Lévy, the swaggering French philosopher who almost single-handedly sired the 2011 western attack on Libya. 

Back then Lévy donned the sanctimonious persona of the human rights champion to goad then-French president Sarkozy into leading the charge into Libya. The western attack on Libya was "inevitable" the war's beaming champion said at the time. He personally undertook to semi-secretly bring the then-rebels from Benghazi in Libya to meet Sarkozy and receive his blessing as the legitimate new rulers of Libya. Then...bombs away.
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Gullible Sen. Inhofe Peddles Fake 'Proof' of Russian Invasion

Friday February 13, 2015

In his statement introducing the bill, he cited "the undeniable participation and presence of Russian troops fighting in eastern Ukraine" as his justification for demanding US weapons to Ukraine.

Senator Inhofe was absolutely certain of Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. He even had the photos to prove it. His allies in Kiev, a delegation from the Ukrainian parliament, had handed him some photos of endless lines of Russian tanks entering Ukraine. A smoking gun! The Senator promptly handed them to the D.C. Beltway's neocon mouthpiece, the Washington Free Beacon, which gleefully published this scoop! Finally here was the evidence they had long been searching for!
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Max Boot Wants to Kick Russia

Thursday January 29, 2015

Neocon scribbler Max Boot makes his living expressing indignation. How dare the Obama administration not adopt a more confrontational stance toward Iran! How dare the US president not commit more US resources toward fighting Boko Haram! How dare the weak-willed administration oppose additional sanctions on Iran! No US action in Somalia and Yemen? Wimpy! And Asia! Iraq! Syria! Libya! KONY!!! 

Feckless! Gutless! Short-sighted! Cowardly!

That's his schtick. Even when the current problems have been caused by the unfortunate neocon triumphs in the foreign policy debate -- Libya, Iraq, Syria, and so on -- the solution is to continue to follow the disastrous dictates of Boot and his armchair brigade or there will be hell to pay from his poison pen.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham in Israel: 'We Will Follow Your Lead'

Monday December 29, 2014

Imagine the reaction if a sitting United States Senator travelled to France, or Russia, or Saudi Arabia and assured the foreign leader that the US lawmaking body would "follow your lead" when it comes to a decision on whether “more sanctions, and stronger sanctions” should be placed on a third country. That a US government official would openly subject his own country's policies to the national interest of another country seems to be unpatriotic by definition. 

But Senator Graham was not in France, or Russia, or Saudi Arabia last weekend. He was in Israel, and he was assuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his colleagues in Congress would do whatever Netanyahu wanted when it came to US policy toward Iran.
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As Expected, Neocons Defend Torture

Tuesday December 9, 2014

In the realm of predictability, it was a sure bet: The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture released today was vigorously rejected by the coterie of neocon armchair warriors whose lives are a constant loop of the television program "24." 

As the rest of us retch at the horrors of forced rectal hydration and feeding -- including the forced rectal ingestion of such items as pureed "hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins." As normal people are outraged that the report ultimately means very little, as President Obama already granted immunity to the CIA torturers back in 2012. As the main argument of what Judge Andrew Napolitano calls the "torture lobby" -- that torture may not be nice but it is necessary to save lives -- has been decimated by the report's conclusion that torture is totally useless. As all of these facts line up to blow the neocon position out of the argument, the shameless neocons remain on their well-padded ramparts, lobbing back their rhetoric and ignoring incoming.
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Anne Applebaum Hates Your Opinion

Sunday November 30, 2014

Neoconservative newspaper columnist Anne Applebaum is angry and upset. In the days when print was king, she could dash off her pro-war opinions and never have to worry about the common people taking apart her arguments. In those days only a very few would be dedicated enough to write a letter to the editor, and only a tiny fraction would be printed. All of them would be subject to approval by the newspaper editor, of course.

These days, online publications such as Applebaum's main venue, the Washington Post, are expected to allow their readers to comment directly below the articles. Applebaum has a problem with this, as she wrote this past week in the Washington Post. These days when she engages in her signature Russia-bashing, the wife of recently-disgraced former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski must face the criticism of her readers.
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NED's Regime Change Tsar Eyes Czech Republic

Monday November 17, 2014

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a most troublesome entity. It is funded nearly entirely by the US government, but as a non-government entity it is not at all answerable to the hand that feeds it (nor the pockets picked to provide the food). The relationship is mutually beneficial: the US government can task it with regime change overseas while keeping the appearance of clean hands; the NED has free reign to pursue its mission (regime change) with zero governmental oversight. 

As one of the founders of the NED, Allan Weinstein, said, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

NED President Carl Gershman perfectly embodies why it is a bad idea for the US to keep an unaccountable entity dedicated to subversion and destabilization in the foreign policy stable. Though over decades he has spent many millions of US taxpayer dollars on regime change overseas, there has never been a regime change in the National Endowment for Democracy. Gershman, a former Trotskyite, has been president-for-life of that organization. He overthrows elected governments overseas, but has never been elected to any office himself.
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Neocon Pundit Max Boot's Post-Election Demand: 'Start a War Now!'

Wednesday November 5, 2014

Now that the US midterm elections are over, with Republicans making gains in the House and especially the Senate, neocon desktop bombardier Max Boot takes to Commentary Magazine to explain to President Obama what the results really mean. 

The foreign-born Boot, who was not himself inspired to join the military of his adopted country, nevertheless sees the election result as a clear mandate for...you guessed it: more and larger US wars overseas. 

The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria are all Obama's fault, writes Boot. Obama's failure to attack Assad in Syria last year "created an image of weakness and indecision" that provided fertile ground for the rise of ISIS.
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Max Boots On The Ground

Friday September 12, 2014

The neocons have a jackboot in the door and they are commencing to kick it in. After they relentlessly hectored President Obama for last week admitting he does not have a strategy to deal with ISIS, the president this week decided to triangulate. Not a single US boot on the ground, he solemnly promised (though we already have 1,000), but he would bomb ISIS to smithereens wherever they might hide. Everywhere!

Syrian sovereignty? Illegitimate! Why? Because we say so! Bomb them! Syrian "moderates" cooperate with ISIS? Who cares! Arm them!

Obama's models of success? The multi-year US bombing of Yemen and Somalia, which has left both countries a gnat's hair above the post-apocalyptic hell of Obama's last "humanitarian intervention," Libya...
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