So why did neo-conservatives want to take the United States to war in Iraq?
On this question, the authors tend to be frustratingly elusive (despite an early promise "not ... to pull any punches"), at one point suggesting an "unspoken agenda" focused on "the Middle East and military power, most of all military power in the Middle East", related to both Israel's security and access to the region's energy resources.
While it is difficult to argue with these two answers, one wishes that the authors had been more direct about which factor they believed was more important in the neo-conservative world view and the drive to war, particularly in light of the abundant evidence they adduce throughout their narrative - especially in relation to neo-conservative ties to the Christian Zionists and the focus of their own networks of think-tanks and foundations - that Israel's fate has been the central passion of all those who identify themselves as "neo-conservative".
In that respect, the authors did indeed pull their punches in order no doubt to avoid being labeled "anti-Semitic", a common neo-conservative tactic against their critics, and to avoid fueling stereotypes that are both incorrect and dangerously anti-Semitic, such as the notion that "Jews" control the media, if not the world. While predominantly Jewish, the neo-conservative movement is by no means exclusively so, and most American Jews, it is important to point out, are not neo-conservatives. As the authors themselves write, "Today, it should not be considered legitimate to imply that any criticism of neo-conservatism is necessarily tainted by anti-Semitism."
JIm Lobe/Asia Times 18.Aug.04
The answer is disheartening. It's the same thrust, doing a shuck and jive stutter-step. Making people feel they've purged the villains. Placing themselves three layers deeper into the maze of power. After that it won't matter anymore. The Security State will be global, and no dissent will matter, except to those unfortunate enough to come under the Panopticon's Godly Eye.
Is that too complex, the language of it?
It was Israel from the get, it's Israel now, and until they're beaten back by force it's going to be Israel to the end of the world. Kerry, whose grandmother was a Jew, is as close to an ethnic Jew as has ever gotten nominated for the Presidency, his wife is a Jew. He seems to stand foursquare for Israel against the world and moral reason.
Kerry's ethnicity means nothing to me, but it makes him attractive and useful to the psychotics who are behind all this, who are themselves Jews.
You can say all we have to do is get rid of the Jews and the problem will end, but I can say that about the human race as well. No Jews, no problem - no people, no problem.
We need finer instruments, and more decisive leaders. And we need them now.
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For those of you who need it, here's my position on being accused of anti-Semitism for saying these things.
