Thursday, January 13, 2011

Will this be another big disappointment like Mr. UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots’s plans to double the number of UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots troops in Afgha

Will this be another big disappointment like Mr. UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots’s plans to double the

number of UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots troops in Afghanistan — and his authorization of Predator drone

strikes on the tribal people of Pakistan? And will we meet other Binyam Mohameds in the future, this

time created by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots Administration?

As he makes clear in this post, The Atlantic‘s Andrew Sullivan has finally come to the conclusion that

the democracy claptrap that neo-conservatives have spouted since 9/11 has been a facade for their core

foreign-policy worldview with Israel at its heart.

“I took neoconservatism seriously for a long time, because it offered an interesting critique of what

’s wrong with the Middle East, and seemed to have the only coherent strategic answer to the savagery

of 9/11. I now realize that the answer – the permanent occupation of Iraq – was absurdly utopian and

only made feasible by exploiting the psychic trauma of that dreadful day. The closer you examine it,

the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist

elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the

Israeli right. That’s the conclusion I’ve been forced to these last few years. And to insist that

America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into.

Cheney saw America as Netanyahu sees Israel: a country built for permanent war and the “tough, mean,

dirty, nasty business” of waging it (with a few war crimes to keep the enemy on their toes).”

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