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newthinking

(3,982 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 11:29 PM Mar 2014

Neocons’ 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 Russia’s 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 world’s leading superpower.

But Official Washington’s neocons are nothing if not relentless and resilient. They are also well-funded and well-connected. So they won’t 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 don’t come into play – the neocons have succeeded in estranging U.S. President Barack Obama from Russian President Vladimir Putin and sabotaging the pair’s 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 OP
He left out Benghazi pscot Mar 2014 #1
Common dreams is a very progressive site newthinking Mar 2014 #2
Aren't the neocons pscot Mar 2014 #3
Sadly, Obama has not been able to rein them in. He needs to. Nuland should be fired, for starters. reformist2 Mar 2014 #4

newthinking

(3,982 posts)
2. Common dreams is a very progressive site
Sat Mar 22, 2014, 03:13 AM
Mar 2014

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
Sat Mar 22, 2014, 10:39 AM
Mar 2014

an adjunct of the Israeli lobby? They seem to have the same geopolitical aims and a similar level of aggressive hysteria.

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