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August 6, 2006
Toys in Sidney Blumenthal's Attic
Sidney Blumenthal really ought to join the "9/11 Truth Movement." His paranoid imagination is wasted on standard issue leftist diatribes against American policy in the Middle East.
In a recent piece, Blumenthal managed to use variations on the evidently ominous word "neoconservative" no less than 15 times as he denounced the Bush Administration for allegedly allowing the dreaded National Security Agency to share intelligence with Israel on the flow of rockets pouring from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah, and from there into Israeli population centers. Sharing critical intelligence with an ally that is under attack may seem like normal behavior, but it is actually part of a "covert neoconservative scenario" that shockingly involves fighting terrorists rather than the preferred liberal approach of offering to lick their toes if they'll promise to be nice.
The sinister neocons want more than to spoil all the constructive diplomacy that worked so well with Arafat when liberals held the White House. According to Blumenthal, they even want more than to drive Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon so as to stop the rocket barrage. The secret objective is to push Israel into a "cleansing war" with Syria and Iran, in order to "redeem Bush's beleaguered policy in the entire region."
You can practically feel a mist of Blumenthal's spittle as he raves of the neocon cabal's iniquitous machinations:
By using NSA intelligence to set an invisible tripwire, the Bush administration is laying the condition for regional conflagration with untold consequences — from Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Israel. Secretly devising a scheme that might thrust Israel into a ring of fire cannot be construed as a blunder. It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.
Relax Sidney. As bad as things look, there is a solution. It's called Thorazine.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 6, 2006 6:04 PM
Comments
"...evidently ominous word 'neoconservative?'"
It's actually a word the neocons themselves use to describe their movement as opposed to the traditional conservative movement of Buckley, Goldwater and Reagan.
Neocons are just as much at odds politically with the old line Reagan Republicans as they are with Liberalism.
They even have their own Washington think tank -- The American Enterprise Institute -- to champion their ideas as opposed to traditional conservative venues like the Heritage Foundation.
These are folks like Wolfowitz and Kristol who shaped an entire political philosophy on Saddam Hussein and Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War.
Saddam became the replacement for the Communists as a threat and an excuse to push for spreading American policies to other countries (some neocons support an outright Empire -- raising the ire of traditional conservatives like Pat Buchanan).
Neocons believe in big government and heavy spending to support foreign expansion of US power and authority -- were traditional conservatives favor small goverment and controlling spending -- and working through alliances (as Reagan did through NATO) to attain foreign policy goals.
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at August 7, 2006 10:44 AM
"...traditional conservatives like Pat Buchanan."
Now, that's one funny thought. RR strikes again!!!
Posted by: nikko at August 7, 2006 10:58 AM
How's the bongwater this morning, Junior?
Posted by: V the K at August 7, 2006 11:42 AM
