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Neocons
Squabble Very Relevant to US Policy This chink in the neocon armour, is of fundamental importance and well worth a read. The neocons have been singularly successful in foisting a litany of lies about Iraq WMD, links to al-Qaeda, links to 9/11 attacks, links to terrorism and future attacks. They continue their buoyant attitudes as their killing, bombing and general mass destruction increases. Now they are claiming that the American people have given them, and their spokesman Bush, a mandate to continue, and impose the rest of their agenda on the world. However as indicated in: http://www.nuclearfree.org.nz/USElections.htm, the American people did not give them a mandate to continue. They rejected Bush and elected Kerry. So there was a rejection of Bush and his neocon agenda. Fukuyama does not take into account the resources open to the neocons. The neocons are no longer just a Think Tank. They and their allies have proliferated and now control the levers of state power, including America's vast nuclear, chemical and biological weapons arsenals. They have already licensed themselves to use these weapons; they have demonstrated their ruthlessness and capacity to use them; their spokesman Bush, claims God gives him the inspiration and justification. This is a conclusive and winning argument with the already deceived and fearful American electorate. They have been conditioned to approve any policy that Bush chooses to deify with a God-approved label. So anything goes. My own opinion is that unless the Bush and neocon conspiracy is exposed and stopped by the American people, they will go on with their Holy war and expand it. I believe they are ideologically, psychologically and emotionally prepared to use nuclear and other fiendish weapons against any country or people that opposes them. To hell with the risks and consequences. For the “war-on-evil- lets-push-on-to-armageddon” Fundamentalists in the Bush administration it's all okay and god-inspired. Fukuyama hasn't covered these matters, at least so far, in his on-going "in-house" debate You can read the debate here: Fukuyama’s moment: a neocon schism opens However the following quote in Fukuyama's article is especially relevant: "For Fukuyama, the prospects of a Bush victory in the presidential election are troubling. In the Financial Times (14 September 2004) he wrote: “The Republican convention outrageously lumped the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war into a single, seamless war on terrorism – as if the soldiers fighting [militant Iraqi Shi’a cleric Muqtada al–Sadr] were avenging the destroyers of the twin towers. This has, in fact, become true, but only because mismanagement of the war has created a new Afghanistan inside Iraq.” He concluded: “if Mr Bush is returned with a large mandate in November, the administration will have got away with a Big Lie about the war on terrorism and will have little incentive to engage in serious review.” |
