The War Activists

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Having evaded accountability for the Iraq War and other bloody disasters, star neocons – William Kristol and Robert Kagan – have refashioned their pro-war arguments, dressing them up in humanitarian garb, with glamorous accessories of national greatness, as David Swanson explains.

By David Swanson


War activists, like peace activists, push for an agenda. We don’t think of war activists as “activists” because they rotate in and out of government positions, receive huge amounts of funding, have access to big media, and get meetings with top officials just by asking — without having to generate a protest first.

They also display great contempt for the public and openly discuss ways to manipulate people through fear and nationalism — further shifting their image away from that of popular organizers. But war activists are not journalists, not researchers, not academics. They don’t inform or educate. They advocate. They just advocate for something that most of the time, and increasingly, nobody wants.
Neoconservative pundit William Kristol. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

Neoconservative pundit William Kristol. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

William Kristol and Robert Kagan and their organization, the Foreign Policy Initiative, stand out as exemplary war activists. They’ve modified their tone slightly since the days of the Project for the New American Century, an earlier war activist organization. They talk less about oil and more about human rights. But they insist on U.S. domination of the world. They find any success by anyone else in the world a threat to the United States.

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/03/21/the-war-activists/

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