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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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Rep. Pete King Wants 'All Out' Surveillance Of Muslims

Friday October 24, 2014

One would have hoped that after Ron Paul schooled Rudy Giuliani on the concept of “blowback” in front of a national audience, US politicians would have paid attention. Sadly, it was back to foreign interventionism as usual.

Once again, it appears that the latest tragedy in Canada, may be attributed to “blowback.” Here in the U.S., instead of reassessing foreign policy, Rep. Pete King wants to ratchet up surveillance on “Muslims” and “Muslim communities.”
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McCain Seeks to Protect US-Backed Terrorists From Other US-Backed Terrorists?

Wednesday October 22, 2014

Today, Senator McCain makes Neocon Watch for his letter to John Kerry expressing concerns that one US-supported terrorist group may soon be threatening another US-protected terrorist group.

It seems the anti-Iran radicals known as the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) have been holed up in "Camp Liberty" in Iraq under US protection, but another group of anti-Iran radicals known as "ISIS" may soon have MeK on the run. And the US, of course, is supposed to do something about it.


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McCain: 'Vote For Us and We'll Start Another Bigger War!'

Wednesday October 22, 2014

With the majority of Americans still opposed to sending US troops back to Iraq and into Syria — despite months of scaremongering from the White House and mainstream media — Senator John McCain has come up with an unusual idea to appeal to voters: the promise of a much wider war.

A Republican win would vault McCain into the chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Senator from Arizona has already given Americans a preview of his priorities should that event occur: much more war! It will start with another US military invasion of Iraq and an invasion of Syria as well. 


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Neoconservatives Stand for Anti-American Foreign Policies and Empire

Thursday October 9, 2014

Both the Democratic and Republican parties today house neoconservatives, and whatever their differences, they coalesce on foreign policies of war, empire, support for Israel, foreign interference, sanctions, an anti-Iran stance, and American exceptionalism. The Democratic Party has its left-neoconservatives like Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. The Republican Party has its right-neoconservatives, and they are allied with the Christian Right and such media as Rupert Murdoch’s Fox.

There is one War Party that includes both the left and right neoconservatives. Washington is under their control. No matter which of the two major political parties anyone votes for, the result is the same: neoconservatism in foreign policy. The left-right distinction is of no significant importance in this respect.
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Donald Rumsfeld: Barack Obama Lacks 'Clarity of Vision'

Monday September 29, 2014


It is rich hearing Donald Rumsfeld, who made some outlandish statements to advance the earlier Iraq War he helped instigate and manage as secretary of defense, fault US President Barack Obama for not providing “clarity of vision.”

Rumsfeld, in a Friday interview with Rusty Humphries of the Washington Times, says:
If there is one thing that we have seen, it’s that this presidency has been exemplified by not providing the kind of clarity of vision that a leader must provide if in fact they want followers. So, if you don’t decide what your mission is, where you’re going, and give people confidence that you will go there and not back off and not move aside you’re not going to get any followers.

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