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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Parry has a very creative imagination: Obama neocon buster
What Neocons Want from Ukraine Crisis
March 2, 2014
Special Report: The Ukrainian crisis partly fomented by U.S. neocons including holdovers at the State Department has soured U.S-Russian relations and disrupted President Obamas secretive cooperation with Russian President Putin to resolve crises in the Mideast, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
President Barack Obama has been trying, mostly in secret, to craft a new foreign policy that relies heavily on cooperation with Russian President Vladimir Putin to tamp down confrontations in hotspots such as Iran and Syria. But Obamas timidity about publicly explaining this strategy has left it open to attack from powerful elements of Official Washington, including well-placed neocons and people in his own administration.
The gravest threat to this Obama-Putin collaboration has now emerged in Ukraine, where a coalition of U.S. neocon operatives and neocon holdovers within the State Department fanned the flames of unrest in Ukraine, contributing to the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and now to a military intervention by Russian troops in the Crimea...Though Im told the Ukraine crisis caught Obama and Putin by surprise, the neocon determination to drive a wedge between the two leaders has been apparent for months, especially after Putin brokered a deal to head off U.S. military strikes against Syria last summer and helped get Iran to negotiate concessions on its nuclear program, both moves upsetting the neocons who had favored heightened confrontations.
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The neocons were dealt another setback in 2008 when Barack Obama defeated a neocon favorite, Sen. John McCain. But Obama then made one of the fateful decisions of his presidency, deciding to staff key foreign-policy positions with a team of rivals, i.e. keeping Republican operative Robert Gates at the Defense Department and recruiting Hillary Clinton, a neocon-lite, to head the State Department...From the start, however, Obama was opposed by key elements of his own administration, especially at State and Defense, and by the still-influential neocons of Official Washington. According to various accounts, including Gatess new memoir Duty, Obama was maneuvered into supporting a troop surge in Afghanistan, as advocated by neocon Frederick Kagan and pushed by Gates, Petraeus and Clinton.
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For instance, Secretary of State Kerry came close to announcing a U.S. war against Syria in a bellicose speech on Aug. 30, 2013, only to see Obama pull the rug out from under him as the President worked with Putin to defuse the crisis sparked by a disputed chemical weapons attack outside Damascus....Similarly, Obama and Putin hammered out the structure for an interim deal with Iran on how to constrain its nuclear program. But when Kerry was sent to seal that agreement in Geneva, he instead inserted new demands from the French (who were carrying water for the Saudis) and nearly screwed it all up. After getting called on the carpet by the White House, Kerry returned to Geneva and finalized the arrangements...Obamas unorthodox foreign policy essentially working in tandem with the Russian president and sometimes at odds with his own foreign policy bureaucracy has forced Obama into faux outrage when hes faced with some perceived affront from Russia, such as its agreement to give temporary asylum to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden....Obama had to express strong disapproval of Snowdens asylum, though in many ways Putin was doing Obama a favor by sparing Obama from having to prosecute Snowden with the attendant complications for U.S. national security and the damaging political repercussions from Obamas liberal base.
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http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/02/what-neocons-want-from-ukraine-crisis/
March 2, 2014
Special Report: The Ukrainian crisis partly fomented by U.S. neocons including holdovers at the State Department has soured U.S-Russian relations and disrupted President Obamas secretive cooperation with Russian President Putin to resolve crises in the Mideast, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
President Barack Obama has been trying, mostly in secret, to craft a new foreign policy that relies heavily on cooperation with Russian President Vladimir Putin to tamp down confrontations in hotspots such as Iran and Syria. But Obamas timidity about publicly explaining this strategy has left it open to attack from powerful elements of Official Washington, including well-placed neocons and people in his own administration.
The gravest threat to this Obama-Putin collaboration has now emerged in Ukraine, where a coalition of U.S. neocon operatives and neocon holdovers within the State Department fanned the flames of unrest in Ukraine, contributing to the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and now to a military intervention by Russian troops in the Crimea...Though Im told the Ukraine crisis caught Obama and Putin by surprise, the neocon determination to drive a wedge between the two leaders has been apparent for months, especially after Putin brokered a deal to head off U.S. military strikes against Syria last summer and helped get Iran to negotiate concessions on its nuclear program, both moves upsetting the neocons who had favored heightened confrontations.
<...>
The neocons were dealt another setback in 2008 when Barack Obama defeated a neocon favorite, Sen. John McCain. But Obama then made one of the fateful decisions of his presidency, deciding to staff key foreign-policy positions with a team of rivals, i.e. keeping Republican operative Robert Gates at the Defense Department and recruiting Hillary Clinton, a neocon-lite, to head the State Department...From the start, however, Obama was opposed by key elements of his own administration, especially at State and Defense, and by the still-influential neocons of Official Washington. According to various accounts, including Gatess new memoir Duty, Obama was maneuvered into supporting a troop surge in Afghanistan, as advocated by neocon Frederick Kagan and pushed by Gates, Petraeus and Clinton.
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For instance, Secretary of State Kerry came close to announcing a U.S. war against Syria in a bellicose speech on Aug. 30, 2013, only to see Obama pull the rug out from under him as the President worked with Putin to defuse the crisis sparked by a disputed chemical weapons attack outside Damascus....Similarly, Obama and Putin hammered out the structure for an interim deal with Iran on how to constrain its nuclear program. But when Kerry was sent to seal that agreement in Geneva, he instead inserted new demands from the French (who were carrying water for the Saudis) and nearly screwed it all up. After getting called on the carpet by the White House, Kerry returned to Geneva and finalized the arrangements...Obamas unorthodox foreign policy essentially working in tandem with the Russian president and sometimes at odds with his own foreign policy bureaucracy has forced Obama into faux outrage when hes faced with some perceived affront from Russia, such as its agreement to give temporary asylum to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden....Obama had to express strong disapproval of Snowdens asylum, though in many ways Putin was doing Obama a favor by sparing Obama from having to prosecute Snowden with the attendant complications for U.S. national security and the damaging political repercussions from Obamas liberal base.
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http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/02/what-neocons-want-from-ukraine-crisis/
In this tale, Obama is secretly fighting the neocons for years, and is now secretly allied with Putin. He's batting down attempts by Kerry to start a war (I mean, obviously Kerry is pushing war by working on diplomatic solutions in the Syria and Ukraine situations, and even with Iran).
Obama has to put up a face of "faux outrage" to preserve this secret alliance and his desire to prevent war at all cost. Everyone, including those in his own administration, are plotting to sabotage his foreign policy. To date, Obama has stepped in to save the day.
All of this likely explains this bizarre commentary:
Robert Parry (on the MSM's propaganda)- "Putin or Kerry: Whos Delusional?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024617842
More on the Ukraine situation:
Analysis: Why Russia's Crimea move fails legal test
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024623531
Ukraine: Human rights monitors urgently needed as journalists and activists face wave of attacks in Crimea
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024625921
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Robert Parry has a very creative imagination: Obama neocon buster (Original Post)
ProSense
Mar 2014
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
reformist2
(9,841 posts)2. It has the ring of truth to it, imo.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)3. the blood of the millions will always be on the hands of the neocons
awful awful people
sheshe2
(83,718 posts)4. Parry sure knows how to spin a tall tale.
Seesh!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)6. Yup, an incredible tale.
LOL!
gulliver
(13,180 posts)5. McCain may be a cracked numbskull who thinks...
...the world is a game of Risk and Sarah Palin is presidential material, but...
...but
...thought i had something else.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)7. On one side, it's
"McCain may be a cracked numbskull who thinks....the world is a game of Risk and Sarah Palin is presidential material"
...let Putin be Putin. On the other side, is why can't Obama be like Putin.
A confusing ball of hypocrisy and lunacy.