| Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| The curious history of the neocons and the CIA |
I happened across a bunch of interesting links today while trolling for insights into the Libby indictment (ok, and trying to read Patrick Fitzgerald's Brooklyn accented mind...) It seems to me that given the situation in Iraq, neoconservatism is decidedly on the ropes. As evidence, note how many of the core neocons have been driven out of government -- some gently (Wolfowitz was ushered to the World Bank, Bolton to the U.N., Feith and Cambone quietly retired), some not so gently (Larry Franklin charged with passing U.S. secrets to AIPAC, Neocon mouthpiece Judy Miller probably out of a job at the NYT -- have you perused her history? Guess who she once wrote a book with ... and now Scooter Libby indicted after apparently lying to investigators and perjuring himself before agrand jury in order to protect his boss, friend and key neocon patron, Dick Cheney.)
The PlameGate affair grew out of a fundamental dispute between the neocons and their veep, and the CIA, which was, by the neocons standards, not eager enough to embarkupon their signature project: the invasion of Iraq. The neocons have a history of thinking the American intelligence establishment too genteel with the use of war, but they weren't always on the opposite side as the CIA. In fact, there is evidence that they were originally a product of the CIA. Interesting links here, here and here...
Fascinating stuff. The only question is when this prescient paragraph from Lew Rockwell back in 1997 will come to pass, and the Krauthamer, Kristol, Frum wing of the punditocracy will, like their counterparts in government, ushered off the stage:
The grassroots are hated by the neocons for precisely that reason. The man on the street, the movement conservative, the Perot voter, the Libertarian Party man – they all want the troops brought home and the tyranny of the US empire brought to a halt. When the leaders of the empire try to talk down to normal people, they are jeered off the stage. The RRR position – no more war – is more and more the position of the American people. That’s a strike for peace and a strike for liberty.
Tags: Iraq, Middle East, War, Foreign Policy, Neoconservatives |
posted by JReid @ 7:29 PM   |
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