[lit-ideas] Rumsfeld
- From: atri2715 <atri2715@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:45:00 -0400
>Re Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz: ...Both have long been associated with the
Neocon/PNAC group that includes Cheney, Perle, etc.
Both embody the messianic belief that if tyrants are deposed and free market
principles introduced all will be well.
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I remember the great question marks in the early days of the Bush
administration as to "who is making foreign policy" and "who are the
neocons"?These are the people; this is the ideology. There was no mystery;
only history. Cheney was Bush's self appointed enforcer; Wolfowitz the
ideologue, Rumsfeld the muscle. Condoleeza Rice's ties to Rumsfeld have been
well documented, she is a part of inner circle. The odd man out, the one who
was not a neocon was Powell and he has been marginalized.
The foreign agenda is clear; less clear has been the attendant economic policy
aimed at bankrupting government spending and juicing up the budget deficit in
the hope (what other aim could there have been?) of rolling back the welfare
state. Paul Krugman of the Times, and many others have explained this. Watch
out for the long term unraveling on that front.
Seymour Hersh's articles in the New Yorker have documented the obstinate
insularity and resolve of the neo cons in the face of critics and obvious
failure in Iraq. This was the quiet "neocon revolution"--and the great
majority of people (indeed, in a sense not even Bush himself) had any idea it
was happening. But happen it did.
Alex Trifan
Boston
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