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2005-10-14 02:46 | User Profile
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9674425/site/newsweek/[/url]
Conservative Crackup How the neocons have developed a political exit strategy. WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Howard Fineman Newsweek Updated: 2:17 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2005
ââ¬ÅOct. 12, 2005 - President George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the ââ¬Åneoconsââ¬Â who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their ownââ¬âa political one: Blame the Administration. ââ¬ÅTheir neo-Wilsonian theory is correct, they insist, but the execution was botched by a Bush team that has turned out to be incompetent, crony-filled, corrupt, unimaginative and weak over a wide range of issues.
ââ¬ÅThe flight of the neoconsââ¬âjust read a recent Weekly Standard to see what I am talking about ââ¬âis one of only many indications that the long-predicted ââ¬Åconservative crackupââ¬Â is at hand. ââ¬Â¦Ã¢â¬Â¦Ã¢â¬Â¦. Neocons (Fineman's gloss)
"They think that the Middle East can be remade, and this country made safe, by instilling a semblance of democracy in the Fertile Crescent and beyond. But they seem to have given up on the ability of the Bush Administration to see that vision through.
ââ¬ÅThey want more troops, not fewer; more money, not less; more passion, not the whispered talk of timetables for withdrawal.
ââ¬ÅBesides championing democracy, we need to show strength and resolve, they believeââ¬âand they are no longer convinced that Bush can show much of either.ââ¬Â ââ¬Â¦Ã¢â¬Â¦.
So, the story is, they turn on the one who brought them to the dance (like he had to know they would do after he did the dirty work to get them there), and slither off into the night.
It was noteworthy that his list of types of ââ¬Åconservativesââ¬Â (Religious, Corporate CEO, Main Street (McCain), Isolationist (Buchanan) and Neo-) who now turn on Bush, does not include ââ¬Åanti-zionist." However, there is no question but that linkage of US policy with the name and history of Zionism is abhorrent to many conservatives. Nor is there any question that this term has been explicitly pushed to the forefront in representing Israel, even though it plainly imports a religious identity which the U.S. constitution does not permit state officials to recognize. On this point, secular liberals must agree. Therefore this omission by Fineman and others of the mainstream media of the category most pertinent to the most egregious wrongdoing is part of the process that enables the cockaroaches to scurry into the walls.
Fineman Zionaman.
2005-10-14 02:54 | User Profile
Yes, it seems that people like David Frum and William Kristol think that [B]now[/B] is just the right time to jump off from Bush's sinking ship and even look good in the eyes of conservatives by opposing pathetic cronies like Harriet Miers.
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