Last one, which I guess does support the idea that the neocons are a product of this loss of the liberal consensus (expand social programs, concede to some civil rights, and win the Cold War against the Soviet Union both with military might and better rhetoric about freedom, democracy, human rights, etc). This is a review of a book by Pat Buchanan by a paleoconservative blogger. Excerpt only. I think the emphasis should be here on 'ex-liberal' , otherwise most of these people would never have functioned the way they did in American society (infiltrating elite society). We should also note that the Israeli agenda is still not yet complete. First, Iraq has not been broken up completely (yet). Two, Iran hasn't been 'regime changed' yet. Third, all Palestinians have not been forced to leave all of Palestine yet. Fourth, the goal of getting Arab accomodationism might not last if the price of oil goes down and all their development bubbles get wiped out. It's going to be an interesting decade, this next one.
CJ http://www.daveblackonline.com/buchanan_is_right_about_the_righ.htm Buchanan Is Right About the Right Darrell Dow With Where the Right Went Wrong, Pat Buchanan takes aim squarely at the neoconservatives. Buchanan thus joins other paleoconservative and paleolibertarian authors such as Sam Francis, Paul Gottfried, Justin Raimondo and Joseph Scotchie who have offered up their own analyses, diagnoses, and prescriptions to decapitate the parasitical neocon host presently devouring the body politic. So who are these mysterious neocons, anyway? Neoconservatism originated in few periodicals and northeastern universities in the 1960’s. Its early exponents were largely Jewish and Eastern European. Today, neoconservatism claims such “luminaries” as Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bill Bennett, Michael Novak, Richard John Neuhaus, and a bevy of syndicated columnists. Buchanan calls them “ex-Trotskyites, socialists, leftists, and liberals who backed FDR, Truman, JDK and LBJ.” They are “the boat people of the McGovern revolution that was itself the political vehicle of the moral, social, and cultural revolutions of the 1960’s.” Skilled in the arts of political chicanery and bureaucratic infighting, the neocons migrated into the Republican Party during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Sam Francis explains why the neocons drifted to the right politically: The political impetus for neoconservatism was, first the threat to the integrity of universities and American intellectual life presented by the militancy of the New Left and the barbarism of the counterculture of the late 1960’s; secondly, the threat to Jewish academic and professional achievements in America presented by the quotas and affirmative action programs of the Great Society; and thirdly, the development of serious anti-Semitism on the Left and the Soviet alliance with radical anti-Western and anti-Israeli Arab regimes and terrorists. Another pillar of the neoconservative mind is the conflation of American and Israeli national interests, which is the root of the current mess in Iraq. In an essay in the Wall Street Journal, militant neocon Max Boot, who has called for the U.S. to take up the imperial burden, called support for Israel a “key tenet” of neocon ideology. Buchanan shows how the neocons used the cover of the billowing smoke of 9/11 to implement long-standing plans to remake the Middle East in Israel’s interest, with the invasion of Iraq at the top of the agenda. In 1996, a group called The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies published a paper for then Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu. The paper called for Israel to “destabilize, and roll-back some of its most dangerous threats,” and called the removal of Saddam Hussein “an important Israeli strategic objective.” The authors of this policy paper included attorney Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and Richard Perle – all prominent figures in the Bush administration. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
