(How the) Neocons Have Weathered the Storm

[newthinking]

Neocons Have Weathered the Storm

Official Washington’s bipartisan hysteria over Ukraine and Crimea is evidence that the
neocons not only weathered the public fury over the Iraq War but are now back shaping U.S.
geopolitical strategies

by Robert Parry

By the middle of last decade, the storm clouds were building over the neocons: their “regime change” in Iraq was a disaster; President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech was a running joke; news articles were appearing about their “dark side” behavior in the “war on terror”; and the public was tired of the blood and treasure being wasted.

You might have expected that the neocons would have been banished to the farthest reaches of U.S. policymaking, so far away that they would never be heard from again. However, instead of disappearing, the neocons have proved their staying power, now reemerging as the architects of the U.S. strategy toward Ukraine.

Prominent neocon and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century Robert Kagan. Hillary Clinton elevated Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland, to be State Department spokesperson. (Mariusz Kubik, mariuszkubik.pl/Creative Commons)Neocons played key behind-the-scenes roles in instigating the Feb. 22 coup that overthrew a democratically elected president with the help of neo-Nazi militias; the neocons have since whipped Official Washington into a frenzy of bipartisan support for the coup regime; and they are pushing for a new Cold War if the people of Crimea vote to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

A few weeks ago, most Americans probably had never heard of Ukraine and had no idea that Crimea was part of it. But, all of a sudden, the deficit-obsessed U.S. Congress is rushing to send billions of dollars to the coup regime in Kiev, as if the future of Ukraine were the most important issue facing the American people.

Prominent neocon and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century Robert Kagan.
Hillary Clinton elevated Kagan’s wife, Victoria Nuland, to be State Department spokesperson.
(Mariusz Kubik, mariuszkubik.pl/Creative Commons)

More:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/14-9

[Vincardog]

1. And Hillary want's to lead them into a new round of global hegemony

[alsame]

2. They get a lot of help

from "Democrats".

[newthinking]

3. that's awkward isn't it?

Sounds like the neo cons still have enormous power?

[Wilms]

4. ^

[onethatcares]

5. he hasn't missed a meal ever

what ever happened to austerity?

every time I see people like this "have you seen the little piggies" comes to mind.

[LanternWaste]

6. Unfolding events have me revisiting many of these older threads.

Unfolding events have me revisiting many of these older threads. There is a particular narrative in these that appears to be not merely missing in the here and now, but absurd at its best.