Is Def. Sec. Ashton Carter a NeoCon Tool? Is Michael S. Schimdt his "Judy Miller"?
At first glance. the NYT's Michael S. Schimdt appears to be guilty only of carelessness. He lifted a bit of news from 2013, brushed it off, forgot to mention that the "criminal activity" was not a crime--or even uncommon--when it was being committed.
However, the timing of his piece stinks. Today, the NeoCons, reeling from the fall in oil prices, tried to help their good buddies in the oil industry by getting an Israeli politician to urge Congress to declare war on Iran. Recall that in 2005, Bush attempted to declare war on Iran, stage two in the NeoCon's Project for a New American Century. The Pentagon said "No" firmly and emphatically and when Bush-Cheney would not accept no for an answer, the military used its own ally in the MSM, GE/MSNC to drive Bush's ratings into the toilet.
The NeoCons have not given up. Iraq was such a HUGE success---their buddies got oil contracts worth billions for the outlay of a few trillion US dollar and a few thousand US service people's lives.
I decided to see what else Michael S. Schmidt has been writing for the NYT. Turns out that he has a "source" in Ashton Carter's office. I surmise this because most of his recent articles are about the Defense Secretary.
Which leads me to wonder, is the source in Ashton Carter's office the same source that spoon fed him Hillary's Emails? And does that mean that Ashton Carter himself is a NeoCon is sensible people's clothing? Or that someone close to him is a NeoCon?
I find this thought much scarier than all the Anti-Hillary sentiment at DU. The last thing we need is a NeoCon mole in the Obama administration. Imagine how much trouble the NeoCons could make before the 2016 election. It could be hostages for votes all over again--or something worse.
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October 17, 2014
America’s neoconservatives, by stirring up trouble in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, are creating risks for the world’s economy that are surfacing now in the turbulent stock markets, threatening another global recession, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/17/the-neocons-masters-of-chaos/
If you’re nervously watching the stock market gyrations and worrying about your declining portfolio or pension fund, part of the blame should go to America’s neocons who continue to be masters of chaos, endangering the world’s economy by instigating geopolitical confrontations in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Of course, there are other factors pushing Europe’s economy to the brink of a triple-dip recession and threatening to stop America’s fragile recovery, too. But the neocons’ “regime change” strategies, which have unleashed violence and confrontations across Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran and most recently Ukraine, have added to the economic uncertainty.
This neocon destabilization of the world economy began with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 under President George W. Bush who squandered some $1 trillion on the bloody folly. But the neocons’ strategies have continued through their still-pervasive influence in Official Washington during President Barack Obama’s administration.
The neocons and their “liberal interventionist” junior partners have kept the “regime change” pot boiling with the Western-orchestrated overthrow and killing of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the proxy civil war in Syria to oust Bashar al-Assad, the costly economic embargoes against Iran, and the U.S.-backed coup that ousted Ukraine’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych last February.
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2014. (U.S. State Department photo)
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http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/17/the-neocons-masters-of-chaos/
Victoria Nuland is the wife of one of the architects of the neocon playbook.
