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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran GambitNeocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit
Neocons Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit[blockquote {margin: 50px 200px 100px 150px;}]The Ukraine crisis in part stirred up by U.S. neocons has damaged prospects for peace not only on Russias borders but in two Middle East hotspots, Syria and Iran, which may have been exactly the point
by Robert Parry
You might think that policymakers with so many bloody fiascos on their résumés as the U.S. neocons, including the catastrophic Iraq War, would admit their incompetence and return home to sell insurance or maybe work in a fast-food restaurant. Anything but directing the geopolitical decisions of the worlds leading superpower.
But Official Washingtons neocons are nothing if not relentless and resilient. They are also well-funded and well-connected. So they wont do the honorable thing and disappear. They keep hatching new schemes and strategies to keep the world stirred up and to keep their vision of world domination and particularly regime change in the Middle East alive.Sen. John McCain appearing with Ukrainian rightists at a rally in Kiev.Sen. John McCain appearing with Ukrainian rightists at a rally in Kiev.
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Now, the neocons have stoked a confrontation over Ukraine, involving two nuclear-armed states, the United States and Russia. But even if nuclear weapons dont come into play the neocons have succeeded in estranging U.S. President Barack Obama from Russian President Vladimir Putin and sabotaging the pairs crucial cooperation on Iran and Syria, which may have been the point all along.
Though the Ukraine crisis has roots going back decades, the chronology of the recent uprising and the neocon interest in it meshes neatly with neocon fury over Obama and Putin working together to avert a U.S. military strike against Syria last summer and then brokering an interim nuclear agreement with Iran last fall that effectively took a U.S. bombing campaign against Iran off the table.
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Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran GambitNeocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit (Original Post)
newthinking
Mar 2014
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pscot
(21,023 posts)1. He left out Benghazi
newthinking
(3,982 posts)2. Common dreams is a very progressive site
I don't quite understand how the neo cons are having such an impact but it is obvious they are. The international Republican Institute was involved of which McCain is the chairman. Victoria Nuland is the wife of super neo-con and co-founder of PNAC (Project for the new American Century, where wolfowitz and his ilk came from and the IRAQ war was planned). She was the one on the leaked phone call.
pscot
(21,023 posts)3. Aren't the neocons
an adjunct of the Israeli lobby? They seem to have the same geopolitical aims and a similar level of aggressive hysteria.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)4. Sadly, Obama has not been able to rein them in. He needs to. Nuland should be fired, for starters.