The Neocons Regroup on Libyan War

[Hannah Bell]

American neoconservatives worried that the pro-democracy wave sweeping the Middle East might take out only "moderate" Arab dictators, but the neocons now see hope that uprisings will topple "enemy" regimes in Libya and Syria...

Despite the warning signs of possible Islamist influences over the rebel forces, American neocons have grabbed the steering wheel of this wider-war bandwagon as it picks up speed.

“The only solution to Libya’s crisis, as Mr. Obama first recognized several weeks ago, is the removal of Mr Gaddafi from power,” said a lead editorial in Wednesday’s Washington Post, which has evolved into the neocons’ preeminent publication. “But the administration still seems to lack a coherent strategy for accomplishing that aim

Charles Krauthammer, one of the Post’s prominent neocon columnists, weighed in with his own typically snarky column on Friday, also demanding that Obama take decisive action against Gaddafi. “Never modest about himself, Obama is supremely modest about his country,” Krauthammer wrote. “Yet at a time when the world is hungry for America to lead — no one has anything near our capabilities, experience and resources — America is led by a man determined that it should not. A man who dithers over parchment.”

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/032511.html

[Hannah Bell]

1. kick

[PurityOfEssence]

2. Geez these guys beat words into the ground; yeah, Obama may be dithering, but they're blithering

Frustrated with Barack Obama though I am and have been since 2006, the reactionaries in this country become more hideously sinister and toxic with each passing ugliness, as they plod forward gurgling the insult du jour. It's like some kind of zombie movie: "ditherditherditherdither...BRAINS!!!...ditherdither kill kill kill...mmmm-oil...

Richard Perle surfaces again in an unctuous slick spreading far and wide: he's been working for Qaddafi as a lobbyist to curry favor with the U.S. Government, but now he's all for this war. Then there's Wolfowitz. Kristol. The unspeakable undead return to guide our pliant government once again. No problem; send in the boys.

[Catherina]

3. Rec'd. n/t

[ixion]

4. Yep. The neocon plan for Pax Americana has not abated despite the so-called 'change'

It has, in fact, kept right on rolling, missing nary a beat.

I guess that's what they're calling "continuity of government" these days. :eyes:

[Gravel Democrat]

5. Perhaps many aren't familiar with a one Robert Parry

(he's old and it has been said that old people are incapable of understanding the need for "humanitarian bombing")

Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his work with the Associated Press on the Iran-Contra story and uncovered Oliver North's involvement in it as a Washington-based correspondent for Newsweek.<1><2> In 1995, he established Consortium News as an online ezine dedicated to investigative journalism. From 2000 to 2004, he worked for the financial wire service Bloomberg.<3>

Major subjects of Parry's articles and reports on Consortium News include the presidency of George W. Bush,<4> the career of Army general and Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell (with Norman Solomon),<5> the October Surprise controversy of the 1980 election,<6> the Nicaraguan contra-cocaine investigation,<7> the efforts to impeach President Clinton,<8> right-wing terrorism in Latin America,<9> the political influence of Sun Myung Moon,<10> mainstream American media imbalance,<11> United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,<12> the presidency of Barack Obama,<13> the influence of Sarah Palin,<14> as well as international stories.<15>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parry

Looking at these boards since the Nobel Peace Prize winner has ordered cruise missile strikes has made it pretty clear that the old (R)v(D) thing is history.

The present (and future) battle is between authoritarians and non authoritarians. Or however one wants to define it. We will win. MMW!