the first that come to mind are the Bush family. All are "New World Order/Open Borders" peeps --- yeah, some repubs and dems think that human resources should flow where they can be deployed most productively for their highest and best use. And increased productivity is a win-win for all.
In addition to working with Latino groups, the ADL’s Southwest regional office has forged alliances with Asian groups representing undocumented Koreans, Chinese, Filipino and other Asian Pacific immigrants in the Southland. “It’s the ethical thing to do,” said HIAS president and CEO Mark Hetfield, of the community’s immigration reform activism. But he quickly added, “It’s in our strategic interest.” Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, reflects the deepening relationship that Jewish groups are developing through their visibility on the immigration issue. “I really admire the way that the Jewish community has gone deep in support of immigration reform,” Salas told the Forward. A 15-year veteran of immigration rights activism, Salas fondly recalled a 2006 mass mobilization, when a procession through L.A. streets began with a cantor blowing a shofar and singing “Let my people stay!” Salas counted efforts by Jewish organizations as second only to Catholic groups in their impact. A key factor, she said, is that HIAS and the AJC, founded at the height of Jewish immigration more than a century ago, have a built-up institutional expertise at integrating new arrivals into American society, with programs, legal resources and family services already in place — but now serving Spanish speakers instead of Yiddish. The Ford Foundation recently awarded a two-year $1 million grant to the AJC’s Bridging America Project, which is planning “joint advocacy workshops in Dallas, New York and Washington, D.C.; a ‘national conversation’ among Latino and Jewish leaders about issues of mutual concern, and conferences in Houston, Miami and New Jersey on the economic benefits of immigration, among other activities. Salas has also worked closely with the ADL, which keeps a keen eye on extremist groups that have set up vigilante patrols on the border between the United States and Mexico. An ADL study reported that “violent incidents against illegal immigrants have been brutal and are occurring with greater regularity, further intensifying the atmosphere of fear and suspicion on both sides of the border.” The ADL has also tracked a rise in hate crimes, discrimination cases and bigotry against Latinos. In L.A. — a city where Latinos are nearly half the population and whose new mayor, Eric Garcetti, boasts both Jewish and Mexican heritage — Salas’s group also works with the Progressive Jewish Alliance, the Jewish Labor Committee and Bend the Arc, a progressive national Jewish group, in pushing for immigrant labor protections. “It’s not a one-way street,” Salas said. When it comes to Israel, the Latina activist suggested, the two groups’ relationship may help to modify anti-Israel viewpoints and foster dialogue rather than demonization. “It comes up,” Salas said, referring to the Middle East issue, “and there’s a perspective: ‘Isn’t this [U.S. treatment of Latinos] the same as in Israel with the Palestinians?’ It’s an opportunity to talk that through, to talk in the context of global immigrant policy, where people can be critical, but in good faith.” Newly arrived Latinos tend to show higher rates of anti-Semitism, said Amanda Susskind, the ADL’s Pacific Southwest regional director. She attributed the phenomenon, which shows up in surveys, to “exposure to some religious teachings.” But the next generation, she said, is no different in its relationship with Jews than the rest of Americans. Asians are also active in coalitions with Jewish groups addressing immigration issues. “We appreciate the partnership with our Jewish allies,” said Betty Hung, policy director of the L.A.–based Asian Pacific American Legal Center. An estimated 3 million undocumented U.S. residents are Asian. California counts the nation’s largest Asian population without legal resident status — about 400,000. APALC has been an active participant in the ADL’s Asian Jewish Initiative, founded in 2006, which brings together civic, business, academic and faith leaders in the L.A. community for social mixers, awards dinners and educational programs. For all this organizational solidarity, opponents of the reform legislation are not hard to find in the Jewish community. One outspoken Jewish opponent is Stephen Steinlight, a former director of national affairs for AJC who criticizes the bill as “amnesty” for illegal immigrants and opposes any “pathway to citizenship” for them. “My views changed,” he told the Forward, explaining his break with the AJC and his alliance with the conservative Center for Immigrations Studies. “AJC made no distinction between legal and illegal immigration,” he said. Steinlight, who characterizes the pro-reform Jewish leaders as “do-gooders leaning over backwards for the aggrieved,” sees immigration as a threat to American workers, especially under-employed African Americans. Groups like AJC and HIAS, he said, are “trying to make amends for doing nothing for Jews during the Holocaust.” Diamond acknowledged that views similar to Steinlight’s are not hard to find. “To my dismay, I have heard more than a few voices in the Jewish community — rabbis I respect, and other leaders — who have said to me, ‘This is not our problem,’” Diamond said. “My response is that this is very much a Jewish issue, one of the most critical issues facing us in this country, and certainly here in Southern California.” For Wendy Braitman, a member of IKAR, the L.A. Jewish congregation led by Rabbi Sharon Brous that has made social activism a mitzvah, it’s also personal. “I feel like it’s my story,” she said. Braitman embodies the grassroots dimension of much of the Jewish activism on this issue. In April, Braitman sat in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Washington office with a group of interfaith activists who paid their own way from the California lawmaker’s home state to lobby her. “I told her I was Jewish,” said Braitman, “and that the issue was of importance to Jews all over the country. As Jews we know what it’s like to live in the shadows.” On the pro-reform Jewish right, meanwhile, support comes with the some of the same caveats that many conservatives have been using to hold up the pending legislation: that undocumented residents should be treated as lawbreakers who will be subjected to fines and blocked from full citizenship even if allowed to stay as permanent residents. Border security must also be beefed up, they demand, as a pre-condition to any reform. Matthew Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, emphasized that the final legislative package must be a bill that “addresses the challenges of illegal immigration and securing our borders in a way that will win the support and trust of the American people.” As an entrepreneur who built a successful garment manufacturing business, Gittelson is also focused on the bill’s labor implications. For one thing, Gittelson would like to see the cap on guest-worker visas — topped off in the Senate bill at 200,000 per year — match the actual demand for labor, which he says is 300,000 annually at the lowest. “The Senate bill shortchanges the economy,” Gittelson maintained. He blamed unions for setting the low quota. “We need a free-market solution, not a union solution,” he said. Gittelson’s CCIR co-founder is Samuel Rodriguez, a politically conservative evangelical Christian who is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. Despite their reservations, Gittelson said, he and Rodriguez are standing with progressives on immigration reform. “When it comes to this issue, we see eye to eye, or at least 90%.” He has recently joined AJC’s Immigration Task Force. In Washington, as the bill has been pulled apart and slapped together, the Jewish community has advanced strong arguments for what should be in it — and what shouldn’t. Family reunification is high on the list of must-haves. Border security is ranked low. Border security is a valid concern, Diamond acknowledged, something he learned firsthand on his trip to the border near Tijuana. “But the issue is how we are deploying our resources,” he said. “Are we targeting gun smugglers and sex traffickers, or are we targeting that 27-yearold man who’s been deported and is trying to get back to his family?” The legislative package submitted to the Senate also notably does not include the Uniting American Families Act, sponsored by Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy. This measure would have allowed an American citizen or permanent resident who was lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to petition for immigrant status on behalf of his or her same-sex partner as an immediate relative. This aspect of the bill is crucial to many Jewish activists. A coalition of nearly 100 New York interfaith leaders, including 37 rabbis, signed a letter to New York Senator Charles Schumer, urging his support for equal protections for LGBT Americans and their families. To their dismay, Schumer convinced his Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee to drop the measure from the bill, arguing that its inclusion would cost the support of key Republicans. Citing their own head counts, many of the measure’s supporters vehemently reject this argument. One victory that was won by Jews is a provision that directly involves Jewish interests: The Lautenberg Amendment, first passed in 1989, granted immigrant status to victims of religious persecution in their native lands. The law allowed the emigration of hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews and was extended in 2004 to cover Christians, Baha’is, Jews and other religious minorities fleeing Iran. The law continues to assist religious minorities from those countries and from Southeast Asia. The new bill makes the law — which previously required annual renewal by Congress — permanent. Jewish activists saw that win as a fitting tribute to the late New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg. Ira Handelman, chair of AJC’s Los Angeles Public Policy Committee, said that if and when the legislation becomes law, the interfaith and immigrant-activist coalitions in which Jewish organizations are now involved may move on to tackle other issues. These include the ongoing national debates over education policy, economic development and social justice On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 5:03:59 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > Plain Ol' the first that come to mind are the Bush family. All are "New > World Order/Open Borders" peeps; and although none have come out and > specifically stated that they will support Hil Clinton, (I think the two > Bush daughters did iin fact endrose Hil Clinton) both Babs and Laura have > both indicated that they willl be voting for Hil: > > > > Others that come to mind off the top of my head are Brent Scowcroft; > Richard Armitage, and John Negroponte; all members of Bush's cabinet. > > There are lists out there of Republicans who have endorsed Hil Clinton; > none of whom are conservative, and all of who are "Open > Borders/Globalist/Elitist/Establishment/Rockefellerian" assholes who I will > never support. > > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 5:21 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Where I was going with this, was that it seems to me, that most of those >> "Republicans" who are now championing Hil Clinton and are, "# >> *NeverTrump*"; are also "Open Borders" advocates >> --- >> cite example please. >> >> On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 3:00:25 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >>> >>> Where I was going with this, was that it seems to me, that most of those >>> "Republicans" who are now championing Hil Clinton and are, "# >>> *NeverTrump*"; are also "Open Borders" advocates, and don't place as >>> great an emphasis on real National Security as many conservatives do! Many >>> refuse to ackowledge the distinction between Islamic/Sharia indoctrination >>> and culture, which is in total conflict with Western ideals and values; not >>> to mention most each and every Western Nation's laws and culture! >>> >>> Therein lies the biggest distinction, >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The conflict in my mind at least, is not so much about >>>> "Neo-Conservatism"; (and I'll come back to the true definition of >>>> "Neo-Con"!) but more of an elitist, globalist perspective. >>>> >>>> Donald Trump, with in my opinion conservative flair, promised and >>>> guaranteed to rebuild our military; of which the Obama Administration has >>>> literally gutted the last eight years. Our troop strength is nominal; >>>> our >>>> naval fleet, although admittedly needing redesign for the New Millennium; >>>> has also been gutted and not matching the demands of Pacific or Atlantic >>>> needs; our Air Force is also severely lacking; stories of crewmen >>>> scavaging >>>> for parts from junk yards and museums; and a lack of qualified pilots. >>>> Not >>>> to mention the literal shift in military philosophy and the adoption of >>>> tacics and theories by the Obama Administration; who now perceives >>>> "Climate >>>> Change" as the number one threat to our national security. >>>> >>>> Although I agree that Hil Clinton, like her husband who utilized >>>> military force and a pseudo-war in Bosnia to divert attention from >>>> domestic >>>> troubles and cum stains on a dress; is more likely to engage in "Nation >>>> Building" more so than Donald Trump; I don't think that there's any >>>> question that Trump would be more suited to meeting the demands of the >>>> 21st >>>> Century than Hil Clinton! >>>> >>>> By definition, (and maybe somewhat simplified!) all "Neo-Cons" are >>>> former Democrats; the majority of which are usually Jewish and also >>>> usually >>>> place Israel's foreign policy above and before the United States' foreign >>>> policy; generally believe in a strong central government, with a >>>> "Federalist" perspective; *e.g*.; a large federal government, with >>>> emphasis placed on military versus social spending. . Neo-Con's were >>>> usually motivated to vote Republican because of the Republican platform of >>>> a strong national defense. Nothing has changed in my opinion with Donald >>>> Trump in that regard....What has changed is the thought process of getting >>>> involved in far flung controversies that have nothing to do with "our"; >>>> *e.g*.; the United States' National interests; versus Israel's >>>> National interests..... >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:52 AM, geoffrey theist <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The balance of power has changed in the middle east starting at bush >>>>> 41.helped along by the neocons. why? I certainly don't know but the >>>>> paradigm has shifted. Trump has played ball to a degree after all he's a >>>>> deal maker.but Trump is a nationalist and this doesn't fit the noecon >>>>> mold. >>>>> Trump is trying to deal but I'm sure he know that he's dealing with >>>>> snakes. >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 12, 2016 6:21 AM, "MJ" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> August 7, 2016 >>>>>> >>>>>> *Why Neocons Can’t Stomach Trump * >>>>>> *Neocons are jumping off the Republican ship for Hillary Clinton even >>>>>> though Donald Trump has shifted their way on Israel and military >>>>>> spending. >>>>>> The big reason is his resistance to a new Cold War with Russia, says JP >>>>>> Sottile. *By JP Sottile >>>>>> >>>>>> Bill Kristol is downright *despondent* >>>>>> <http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/2016-bill-kristol-republicans-conservative-movement-donald-trump-politics-214025> >>>>>> >>>>>> after his *failed search* >>>>>> <http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/27/bill-kristol-and-a-bush-looking-libertar> >>>>>> >>>>>> for an alternative to Donald Trump. Max Boot is *indignant* >>>>>> <http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/max-boot-anti-trump-foreign-policy> >>>>>> about his “ *stupid* >>>>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/how-the-stupid-party-created-donald-trump.html>” >>>>>> >>>>>> party’s willingness to ride a bragging bull into a delicate *China* >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrfE9I8_hs> policy shop. And the >>>>>> leading light of the first family of military interventionism *Robert >>>>>> Kagan* >>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-is-something-very-wrong-with-donald-trump/2016/08/01/73809c72-57fe-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> is *actually lining up neoconservatives* >>>>>> <https://theintercept.com/2016/07/25/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-hillary-clinton/> >>>>>> >>>>>> behind the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. >>>>>> >>>>>> At the same time, the Democrats have become the party of >>>>>> bare-knuckled, full-throated American Exceptionalism. That >>>>>> transformation >>>>>> was announced with a *vein-popping zeal* >>>>>> <http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/31/readwatch-the-scariest-speech-from-both> >>>>>> >>>>>> by retired general and *wannabe motivation screamer* >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXsFwGA4VpM> John Allen at the >>>>>> Democratic convention in the City of Brotherly Love. During his >>>>>> “speech,” a >>>>>> few plaintive protests of “ *no more war* >>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/john-allens-speech-at-convention-met-with-usa-chants/2016/07/28/641a470e-5530-11e6-b652-315ae5d4d4dd_video.html>” >>>>>> >>>>>> were actually drowned-out by Democrats chanting “USA-USA-USA!” >>>>>> >>>>>> This is the same Democratic Party often criticized by Kagan & Co. as >>>>>> the purveyors of timidity, flaccidity and moral perfidy. It’s not that >>>>>> Democrats haven’t dropped bombs, dealt arms and overturned regimes. They >>>>>> have. And they’ve even got the Peace Prize-winning *Obama-dropper* >>>>>> <http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/06/the-numbers-in-obamas-drone-death-report-dont-add-up/> >>>>>> >>>>>> to prove it. But unlike enthusiastically belligerent Republicans, the >>>>>> Dems >>>>>> are supposed to be the party that does it, but doesn’t really like to do >>>>>> it. >>>>>> >>>>>> But now, they’ve got Hillary Clinton. And she’s *weaponized* >>>>>> <http://newsvandal.com/2014/06/hillary-clinton-and-the-weaponization-of-the-state-department/> >>>>>> >>>>>> the State Department. She *really likes* >>>>>> <http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/27/hillary-the-hawk-a-history-clinton-2016-military-intervention-libya-iraq-syria/> >>>>>> >>>>>> regime change. And her nominating convention not only embraced the >>>>>> military, but it sanctified the very Gold Star families that >>>>>> neocon-style >>>>>> interventionism creates. It certainly *created the pain* >>>>>> <http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/08/04/trump-khan-iraq-vote> of >>>>>> the Khan family who lost their son in the * illegal* >>>>>> <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq> war in >>>>>> Iraq. But the Dems didn’t mention that sad fact as they grabbed the flag >>>>>> away from the Republicans. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *Truly Neo-confusing. *It kinda feels like reality has slipped off >>>>>> its axis and we’ve landed on a *Bizarro World* >>>>>> <http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Htrae> version of America. Democrats are >>>>>> acting like Republicans. Pat Buchanan is championing the GOP’s “*Peace >>>>>> Candidate* <http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-peace-candidate-125499>.” >>>>>> And the neocons are fleeing from the party they’ve used like a >>>>>> geopolitical >>>>>> cudgel for the better part of three decades. >>>>>> >>>>>> At first glance, it all makes sense. Trump captured the GOP >>>>>> nomination in no small part by trashing two of the neocons’ favorite >>>>>> things >>>>>> ever the Bush family and the Iraq War. He also suggested early on that >>>>>> he’d approach the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as >>>>>> (gasp!) >>>>>> an honest broker. Trump said he really wanted to “ *make that deal* >>>>>> <http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-will-try-to-broker-israeli-palestinian-peace-deal/>.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Without irony, one-time *neocon wonderboy* >>>>>> <https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/18/neocons-make-rubio-their-favorite/> >>>>>> >>>>>> Marco Rubio remarked that it isn’t a “ *real estate deal* >>>>>> <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/270866-rubio-to-trump-israel-palestinian-conflict-isnt-a-real>” >>>>>> >>>>>> when, in fact, that’s exactly what it is. >>>>>> >>>>>> But the ever-pliable Trump *quickly got religion* >>>>>> <http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-palestinians-must-stop-terror-for-peace-deal/> >>>>>> >>>>>> on Israel. He did an *about-face* >>>>>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-israel-settlements_us_572a03ede4b096e9f08fc693>, >>>>>> >>>>>> marched into AIPAC’s annual confab, and* staked out a claim* >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQgDgMGuDI0> on the *reflexively >>>>>> pro-Israel* >>>>>> <http://nypost.com/2016/07/20/trump-is-plainly-the-best-bet-for-the-jews/> >>>>>> >>>>>> side of the issue. But it wasn’t enough to assuage the angst of the >>>>>> GOP’s >>>>>> forever-circling hawks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Frankly, nothing seems enough to sway the neocons in Donald’s >>>>>> direction. But it’s not for lack of trying on Trump’s part. Really, he’s >>>>>> checked off many of the boxes that make neocons smile. >>>>>> >>>>>> Trump wants a “yuuge” military … the biggest and baddest ever! So >>>>>> big, that no one in a million years will ever challenge it. That sure >>>>>> sounds a lot like Reagan’s “peace through strength.” Neocons do love >>>>>> Reagan. And, as if on cue, the Kristol/Kagan-led “Foreign Policy >>>>>> Initiative” *just posted* >>>>>> <http://foreignpolicyi.org/content/fpi-bulletin-why-it%E2%80%99s-time-re-invest-us-military> >>>>>> >>>>>> a clarion call to spend more bucks to buy bigger bangs for an already >>>>>> *gargantuan* >>>>>> <https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spending-vs-world/> >>>>>> >>>>>> military. Doesn’t that fit with Donald’s plan to spend defense dollars >>>>>> like >>>>>> a drunken sailor? >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe neocons don’t want the military to be *so big* that no one >>>>>> will ever try anything. Maybe they want a few challenges here and there, >>>>>> just for a little * creative destruction* >>>>>> <http://www.alternet.org/story/15860/who_is_michael_ledeen> to keep >>>>>> the world on its toes. But Trump’s right there with them. He wants to >>>>>> “*bomb >>>>>> the shit* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWejiXvd-P8>” out of >>>>>> ISIS. And *he even said* >>>>>> <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290115-trump-us-has-no-choice-but-to-bomb-isis-in-libya> >>>>>> >>>>>> America has “no choice but to bomb Libya” and “take out” the Islamic >>>>>> State. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *C’mon, Neocons … What’s Not to Like? *And how about Trump’s >>>>>> Islamophobia? It sure seems *simpatico* >>>>>> <https://lobelog.com/the-neocon-islamophobe-nexus-clarion-brings-together-perle-and-gaffney/> >>>>>> >>>>>> with the last two decades of neoconservative drum-beating. Trump >>>>>> repeatedly >>>>>> uses the magic words “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” Can’t you just hear >>>>>> the >>>>>> longing sighs coming out of the *American Enterprise Institute* >>>>>> <http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/01/493383/aei-islamophobia-rubin-spencer/> >>>>>> ? >>>>>> >>>>>> He also wants to ban Muslims. Or “just” ban people coming from >>>>>> countries where Muslims have committed terrorism. Who knows? Either way, >>>>>> the message is “Muslims bad.” It even gave neocon bushwacker Frank >>>>>> Gaffney >>>>>> a serious *man-crush* >>>>>> <http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/08/donald-trump-frank-gaffney-islamophobia-poll/> >>>>>> >>>>>> on The Donald. >>>>>> >>>>>> To be fair, other less “fringy” neocons like Kristol have >>>>>> *repudiated* >>>>>> <http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/08/media/donald-trump-muslim-ban-conservative-media/> >>>>>> >>>>>> the Muslim ban idea. But, as *filmmaker Robbie Martin* >>>>>> <https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey> showed in his just-completed >>>>>> series on the neocons and their “*very heavy agenda* >>>>>> <http://averyheavyagenda.blogspot.com/>,” even the most >>>>>> intellectually renowned among them has engaged in the dangerous >>>>>> stereotyping of all Muslims as terrorists. >>>>>> >>>>>> In fact, Martin featured a *frightening clip* >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcj4-2RePo> of two Kagans >>>>>> (Robert’s dad Donald and his brother Fred) making the case that the U.S. >>>>>> military should clean out the Occupied Territories in the aftermath of >>>>>> 9/11 >>>>>> because radical Muslims and “the Arabs” are all basically the same. Oh, >>>>>> by >>>>>> the way, they only respect brute force. So why not take advantage of the >>>>>> “New Pearl Harbor” and show them all who’s boss? >>>>>> >>>>>> It’s kinda like the “dancing Muslims” Trump *and only Trump* >>>>>> <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/> >>>>>> >>>>>> saw celebrating the 9/11 attacks in New Jersey. Even if he didn’t see >>>>>> them, or just conflated them with an *isolated incident* >>>>>> <http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-is-the-footage-donald-trump-thinks-he-saw-on-911/> >>>>>> >>>>>> in East Jerusalem, what’s the difference? It’s all the same to him. >>>>>> >>>>>> Just like aggrieved and aggressive Muslims were all the same to the >>>>>> Kagans on 9/11. Doesn’t that make Trump’s persistent suspicion of >>>>>> Muslims a >>>>>> perfect match for the neoconservative wrecking crew? >>>>>> >>>>>> And then there’s the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has relentlessly >>>>>> criticized as being so bad that it’s downright *suspicious* >>>>>> <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/264598-trump-iran-deal-was-so-bad-its-suspicious>. >>>>>> >>>>>> He said he wants to “ *renegotiate* >>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/04/donald-trump-is-right-about-tearing-up-the-iran-deal-says-a-leading-iranian-hard-liner/>” >>>>>> >>>>>> immediately after taking office. And he *wrongly claims* >>>>>> <https://lobelog.com/trump-got-pretty-much-everything-wrong-about-the-iran-deal/> >>>>>> >>>>>> the deal is a fast-track to a nuclear-armed Iran (an error that puts him >>>>>> squarely in the neocon camp). As a rule of thumb, he’s *livid* >>>>>> <http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-iran-video-money/2016/08/03/id/742028/> >>>>>> >>>>>> about all things related to Iran. So, what’s the problem? Why can’t the >>>>>> neocons wrap their arms around Donald Trump? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *In a Word: Russia. *It’s framed as a troublesome “bromance” between >>>>>> Vladimir Putin and Trump. Critics don’t like Trump’s comfort with a “ >>>>>> *dictator* >>>>>> <http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2016-07-27-US--DEM%202016-Convention-The%20Latest/id-4dd74d65754940aba8f481692dc73d28>” >>>>>> >>>>>> who, as Kagan’s wife Victoria Nuland *recently told* >>>>>> <http://russialist.org/video-transcript-russian-violations-of-borders-treaties-and-human-rights-u-s-senate-testimony-by-assistant-secretary-victoria-nuland-russia-ukraine-syria-senate-video-nuland/> >>>>>> >>>>>> the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, engages in “aggression.” She’s >>>>>> currently the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian >>>>>> Affairs. She *basically managed* >>>>>> <https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/> >>>>>> the *2014 coup* >>>>>> <http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/05/chronology-of-the-ukrainian-coup/> >>>>>> >>>>>> in Ukraine. And she’s outraged by Russian aggression in Ukraine. >>>>>> >>>>>> But she’s not bothered by her * husband’s role* >>>>>> <http://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/regime-change-trauma/> in pushing for >>>>>> the most blatant and wanton act of aggression thus far this century >>>>>> the >>>>>> unwarranted destruction of Iraq. Go figure. >>>>>> >>>>>> On the other hand, Putin has the *unmitigated gall* >>>>>> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/4/russia-counters-us-nato-moves-eastern-europe-its-o/> >>>>>> >>>>>> to move military forces around *inside* the borders of *his own* >>>>>> country. He’s * blamed* >>>>>> <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN10B0IX> >>>>>> for hacking the Democratic Party despite a *lack of actual >>>>>> evidence* >>>>>> <http://fair.org/home/nyt-leads-with-russia-hack-conspiracy-despite-no-evidence-in-next-to-last-paragraph/> >>>>>> >>>>>> and the NSA’s own *hacking hijinks* >>>>>> <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-intelligence-commentary-idUSKCN10F1H5>. >>>>>> >>>>>> And he’s accused of “ *meddling* >>>>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/world/europe/dnc-hack-russia.html>” >>>>>> in U.S. elections a pretty rich accusation given America’s long >>>>>> history >>>>>> of *surreptitious electioneering* >>>>>> <http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2014/03/24/us-democracy-promotion-destroys-democracy-overseas/> >>>>>> >>>>>> around the world. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is *no doubt* >>>>>> <http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-quotes/index.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> that “Bad Vlad” likes Donald. And Donald *likes* >>>>>> <http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/donald-trump-praises-defends-vladimir-putin/> >>>>>> >>>>>> Vlad. But the real problem isn’t their bromance. This is about the >>>>>> neoconservative desire to make sure the United States is the lone >>>>>> guarantor >>>>>> of the geopolitical order. This is about Pax Americana. This is about >>>>>> resurrecting the faded dream of a new American century. >>>>>> >>>>>> And what stands in the way of the type of the neocon dream of global >>>>>> “full-spectrum dominance?” Russia’s nuclear arsenal. >>>>>> >>>>>> Russia is the only nation with an arsenal big enough to withstand the >>>>>> subtle nuclear blackmail of America’s trillion-dollar nuclear “ >>>>>> *upgrade* >>>>>> <http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-02/us-begins-upgrading-its-nuclear-bomb-arsenal>.” >>>>>> >>>>>> That’s why *Russia is concerned* >>>>>> <http://thebulletin.org/technical-concerns-why-russia-worries-about-missile-defense> >>>>>> >>>>>> about the *missile defense systems* >>>>>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nato-takes-control-of-us-built-missile-defense-shield_us_578009d5e4b0344d514f528b> >>>>>> >>>>>> arrayed on their border. Those systems can knock down retaliatory >>>>>> strikes, >>>>>> thus making a first strike with *new nuclear cruise missiles* >>>>>> <http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/881056/af-releases-request-for-proposal-for-nuclear-air-launched-cruise-missile-replac.aspx> >>>>>> >>>>>> at least theoretically possible. >>>>>> >>>>>> The United States is also using NATO expansion to *increasingly >>>>>> encircle* >>>>>> <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/u-s-nato-troop-buildup-in-eastern-europe-to-counter-russians-is-largest-since-cold-war/> >>>>>> >>>>>> a nation that once was America’s geopolitical equal. That’s why Trump’s >>>>>> criticism of America’s outsized support for NATO must’ve been the >>>>>> tipping >>>>>> point from disdain to panic among *neocon* >>>>>> <http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-trump-russian-connection-20160725-snap-story.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> and *neoliberal* >>>>>> <http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/madeleine-albright-trump-victory-putin-gift> >>>>>> >>>>>> interventionists alike. >>>>>> >>>>>> The oddity is that there does seem to be more than a passing affinity >>>>>> between Trump and Putin. Trump’s *statements on Ukraine* >>>>>> <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/aug/04/what-you-need-know-about-donald-trump-russia-and-u/> >>>>>> >>>>>> would be easily dismissed if his *campaign manager Paul Manafort* >>>>>> <http://www.politico.eu/article/trump-changed-views-on-ukraine-after-hiring-paul-manafort-campaign-manager-russia-vladimir-putin/> >>>>>> >>>>>> hadn’t *worked as a political consultant* >>>>>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> to the pre-Nuland leadership of Ukraine. And Trump’s statements on >>>>>> Crimea >>>>>> might be written off if he’d release his taxes and end speculation of >>>>>> financial ties to Putin’s regime. >>>>>> >>>>>> But the visceral reaction against his repeated calls for cooperation >>>>>> *“By the way, wouldn’t it be great if we got along with Russia?”* >>>>>> <http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/08/03/Trump-Slams-US-Military-Arms-He-Swoons-Over-Russian-Military> >>>>>> >>>>>> exposes the extent to which the entire foreign policy and political >>>>>> establishments are squarely on the same page. They are angling for Cold >>>>>> War >>>>>> 2.0, and Trump is the only major figure willing to challenge that >>>>>> orthodoxy. >>>>>> >>>>>> Unlike Hillary Clinton, of course, which brings the whole thing back >>>>>> to the miasma of confusion hanging over this strange election. Hillary >>>>>> is *on >>>>>> the neocon team* >>>>>> <http://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/clinton-megadonor-islamophobic/> if >>>>>> not in name, certainly in deed. She will “ *stand up* >>>>>> <http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/10/13/hillary-clinton-democratic-debate-putin-bully-13.cnn>” >>>>>> >>>>>> to Bad Vlad. She’s targeted by Russian hackers because Putin prefers his >>>>>> “ *unwitting >>>>>> agent* >>>>>> <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/michael-morell-endorses-clinton-226707>” >>>>>> >>>>>> Donald Trump. And Donald is, *according to an emerging narrative* >>>>>> <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/trumps-turn-toward-appeasement/493934/>, >>>>>> >>>>>> a latter-day Neville Chamberlain just inviting the Ruskies to take over >>>>>> the >>>>>> Baltic States, Ukraine, and God knows what else. >>>>>> >>>>>> The greatest irony of all is that Trump catapulted over the neocons’ >>>>>> preferred presidential options by slamming their pet project the War >>>>>> on >>>>>> Iraq. Trump’s criticism of that war and the chaos it unleashed resonated >>>>>> with the very voters the Neocons took for granted as pliable, >>>>>> fear-responsive bumpkins. That left the neocons out in the cold just as >>>>>> they were angling to trump the disorderly, hard-to-prosecute mess they >>>>>> call >>>>>> “The Global War on Terror.” >>>>>> >>>>>> What they really want, and have always wanted, is to revive the >>>>>> greatest war of all the Cold War. That’s the grand chessboard they >>>>>> yearn >>>>>> to play on once again. The War on Terror was really just a stop-gap, >>>>>> like >>>>>> methadone for imperialists. But now they’ve scored because it looks like >>>>>> the supposed party of imperial intransigence is, under the guidance of >>>>>> Hillary Clinton, poised to take the reins from a Trump-addled GOP. >>>>>> >>>>>> And if a *recent article in * >>>>>> <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/breedlove-network-sought-weapons-deliveries-for-ukraine-a-1104837.html> >>>>>> *Der >>>>>> Spiegel* >>>>>> <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/breedlove-network-sought-weapons-deliveries-for-ukraine-a-1104837.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> is right, Kagan’s wife Victoria has emerged as a candidate for the >>>>>> prized >>>>>> position of secretary of state should Hillary win. If that comes to >>>>>> pass, >>>>>> the neocons may not have succeeded in their initial plan for a new >>>>>> American >>>>>> century, but they will have hastily completed their last-minute project >>>>>> for >>>>>> a new Democratic Party. And that means this election isn’t that >>>>>> Neo-confusing after all. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/07/why-neocons-cant-stomach-trump/ >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >>>>>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >>>>>> >>>>>> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >>>>>> * It's active and moderated. 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