Seeking War to the End of the World
Despite the disastrous Iraq War, neocons still dominate Official
Washington’s inside-outside game, government policymakers coordinating
with think-tank opinion leaders to keep world tensions high and money
flowing to military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan
and Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
If
the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will
reoccupy Iraq, the U.S. military will take out Syria’s secular
government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over),
and the U.S. Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but
follow that with a massive increase in military spending.
Like
spraying lighter fluid on a roaring barbecue, the neocons also want a
military escalation in Ukraine to burn the ethnic Russians out of the
east, and the neocons dream of spreading the blaze to Moscow with the
goal of forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin. In
other words, more and more fires of Imperial “regime change” abroad even
as the last embers of the American Republic die at home.
Prominent neocon intellectual Robert Kagan. (Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl)
