Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:36 am Post subject: Should neocons take the fall for Iraq? |
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Yes.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/17/news/letter.php
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The connection has been made so often that it seems almost natural, a part of the accepted wisdom. Indeed, there it was in the pages of The New York Times just the other day: "Through most of the Bush Administration, the neoconservative idea of using American military power to advance democracy around the world prevailed, pushed along by Dick Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld." That meant, of course, the vice president and Donald Rumsfeld, the departing defense secretary.
Cheney and Rumseld, as the main proponents of the war in Iraq, are often placed in sentences just after that word "neoconservatives." The idea is very clear, partly true, strangely incomplete � and, in certain contexts, a bit sinister.
The suggestion is that, Svengali- like, a small group of neocon ideologues captured the minds of a small group of senior administration officials, and the result has been disaster: the Iraqi quagmire, which nobody knows how to escape. |
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