The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in by Stephen J. Sniegoski

The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in by Stephen J. Sniegoski

By Stephen J. Sniegoski

Although it isВ generallyВ understoodВ that American neoconservatives driven demanding for the warfare in Iraq, this publication forcefully arguesВ that the neocons'В goal was once no longer the unfold of democracy,В butВ the defense ofВ Israel's pursuits within the heart East.В ShowingВ that the neocon circulation has regularly pointed out heavily with the pursuits ofВ Israel's LikudnikВ right wing, the dialogue contends that neocon suggestion on Iraq used to be the complete opposite ofВ conventional UnitedВ States overseas coverage, which has continuously sought to take care of balance within the quarter to advertise the circulation of oil.В Various gamers within the rushВ to conflict are assessed in accordance with their reasons, together with President Bush, Ariel Sharon, contributors of the foreign-policy institution, and the yankee humans, who're noticeable now not as having been dragged into battle opposed to their will, yet as prepared after 9-11 for retaliation.

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58 Even if Reagan’s moderation of the neoconservative hard-line anti-Soviet policy ultimately induced the voluntary unraveling of the Soviet empire, nonetheless, it seems reasonable to believe that the hard-line policies espoused and implemented by neocon Reaganites helped move the Soviet Union to that position.

On the other hand, the neocons find allies among various Jewish Americans, who may not support all of their hard-line militaristic positions or their more conservative domestic positions, but agree on the issue of staunchly supporting Israel and its foreign policy objectives. In this latter category are such liberal pro-Zionists as Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Congressman Stephen Solarz, Congressman Tom Lantos, the New Republic’s Martin Peretz, and representatives from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

34 McGovernites were not simply opposed to American military involvement in Vietnam, they were opposed also to the continuation of the Cold War with its global opposition to Communism and its concomitant massive military spending. The military retrenchment they sought, however, would have had negative repercussions for Israel, dependent as it was on American military assistance, and especially since it was targeted as an ideological enemy by the Communist countries and the world left.  . espoused cutbacks in the development and procurement of weapons systems, a curtailment of American military capabilities and commitments, and what amounted to a semireturn to isolationism.

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