The Anti-Neocon | David Corn | July 20, 2005
David Corn writes The Loyal Opposition twice a month for TomPaine.com. Corn is also the Washington editor of The Nation and is the author of The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown Publishers).
"I'm the anti-neocon." That's how Robert Merry recently described himself to me. After reading his new book—Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition —I have to say: He got that right.
His book is the most scorching mainstream critique of the neocons and their misadventure in Iraq that I have encountered. Merry, the publisher of Congressional Quarterly and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, rips apart that small band of ideologically driven chickenhawks and leaves their bones scattered on the floor of a Council of Foreign Relations conference room. Merry is a hard-ass practitioner of global realpolitik. There is not a smidgeon of sentiment in a single sentence of this book. He's certainly not keeping company with one-worlders and those who would identify (or misidentify, in his view) American national security interests with feel-good global humanitarianism. But in a classic example of that old Middle East cliché—the enemy of my enemy is my friend—he has produced a book that liberal-minded foreign policy folks ought to gobble up. And I would dare the neocons to enter Merry's knife-throwing gallery. ...
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Anti-Neocons
Anti-Neocons No More Wars for Israel
Basics for new people. There are a lot of people who would like to know more about Zionism, the Neocons, MIC, NWO, CFR, BIS, CIA, MI6, Mossad, DSM, OSP, AIPAC, DOD, WHIG, MSM, ISCB, PNAC, and so forth. It is hard to swallow for regualr people with regular jobs who do not have the time to do the reasearch and who were not told a thing in School. This section is for breaking people into the movement.
Basics for new people. There are a lot of people who would like to know more about Zionism, the Neocons, MIC, NWO, CFR, BIS, CIA, MI6, Mossad, DSM, OSP, AIPAC, DOD, WHIG, MSM, ISCB, PNAC, and so forth. It is hard to swallow for regualr people with regular jobs who do not have the time to do the reasearch and who were not told a thing in School. This section is for breaking people into the movement.