in writing about neocons in this piece caitlin speaks about how some worry about being seen as anti-semitic, but that status is becoming a proud status to those of us who have begun to learn about what all of this implies;
American Conservative has published an article titled “Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?“,
an excerpt from a book by Fox’s Tucker Carlson, which documents
neoconservative thought leaders Max Boot and Bill Kristol’s consistent
track record of supporting spectacularly awful US war policies. Carlson
goes over the many, many acts of military interventionism which have
been pushed for by these two legendary failmeisters, documents what they
predicted would happen as the result of that interventionism (freedom,
democracy and prosperity) and what actually ended up happening instead
(needless death, terrorism and chaos), and marvels at how they both
somehow remain in positions of high esteem with high-profile,
high-paying jobs.
The article was shared today
on Twitter by Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who commented that
Carlson “offers a devastating critique [of] interventionism and shows
how much of the foreign policy establishment has failed the American
people. There is an emerging, left right coalition of common sense for a
foreign policy of restraint.”
Khanna has received a predictable amount of backlash from
the left for this tweet, as does anyone who mentions the possibility of
cross-ideological coalitions against US warmongering. The only
cross-ideological convergence that many leftists find palatable in
compensating for their relatively weak numbers is with the neoliberal,
neoconservative corporate “center”, so-called only because the
plutocratic class which benefits from the current Orwellian status quo
has been able to buy up narrative control to force their agendas to
become the mainstream consensus. The trouble with this, of course, is
that that corporate CIA/CNN “center” never opposes US warmongering in
any meaningful way. The left (the real left, not the “We call everyone
we’re cluster bombing by their preferred gender pronouns” MSNBC
faux-left) opposes US warmongering, and in some cases so too does the
populist right which has uplifted Tucker Carlson to such prominence...........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/02/no_author/hating-neocons-is-becoming-mainstream-again-and-it-is-excellent/
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