Behind the eyes of the warmongering US hawks

[babylonsister]

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1415

Behind the eyes of the warmongering US hawks
Military interventionists are still cynically manipulating public opinion, says matthew carr


While the foreign policy think-tank Chatham House declares Iraq to be on the point of total collapse, the intellectual architects of pre-emptive war continue to attract surprisingly respectful media attention.

One can be revolted - but not surprised - at the spectacle of Bush and Blair, the Laurel and Hardy of the War on Terror, congratulating each other on their strategic vision from the White House lawn. But whose bright idea was it to let Richard Perle, the US hawk known as the 'prince of darkness', make a PBS documentary arguing that the world needs more military 'interventions'? And what explains the ubiquitous media presence of John Bolton, the troglodyte former US ambassador to the UN?

Only last week Bolton was interviewed by John Humphrys on the Today programme. Listening to that conversation was a grim experience that was not unlike being trapped with the Kevin Spacey serial killer character from Seven.

It wasn't just that Bolton's arguments were bizarre and illogical to the point of insanity, such as his description of Humphrys and the millionaire philanthrophist George Soros as members of the 'extreme left'. Or his ludicrous assertion that the invasion of Iraq has laid the basis for a more stable and peaceful Middle East. It wasn't even his fanaticism, his arrogance and his utter contempt for the opinions of the non-American world. What is striking about Bolton is the savagery and homicidal intent that shows through the statesmanlike patter.

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[acmavm]

1. Loved this article. Simply loved it. So honest, truthful. Wow.

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This process of seduction is partly due to the tireless efforts of war trolls such as Perle and Bolton. To the imperial mindset of these desktop warriors, foreign policy always boils down to the cathartic killing of America's enemies, generally of the darker-skinned variety. No matter how great the carnage, they are unrepentant and utterly indifferent, dismissing the destruction of entire societies as strategic victories.

These men are cynical, shameless and without honour. Asked by a distraught young American widow whose husband had died in Iraq why the administration went to war, Perle replied without batting an eyelid that the information on 'our desks' kept saying that Saddam had WMD. Perle does not mention that such information was essentially commissioned - a manoeuvre that enables men like him to lie without actually lying.


Perle, Bolton and co often pontificate on the unique moral evil of terrorism. But in their contempt for human life and their appetite for war they are not that different from Osama bin Laden. Unlike Osama, they will not be found in the Hindu Kush carrying a Kalashnikov. They are war trolls, endlessly manipulating the public from TV studios. In this sense they are more like the Roman senators who grew rich and fat while the legions went out to 'create a wasteland and call it peace', as Tacitus once put it.

-SNIP-

[Donnachaidh]

2. K&R -- a MUST READ on the mindset of those who want to destroy this country

Bolton and Perle should have rooms ready at Gitmo.

[RC]

3. Don't you mean cages?

Inside rooms are too good to waste on them.

[Donnachaidh]

4. as long as they are rounded up, does it matter?

Personally, I think the old school version of jail would work -- dig a hole, put some bars over it after you've tossed them into it. Then hand them a bucket for a toilet, and a bible for reading. And leave it open to the elements.