tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:14 +0000Foreign PolicyRick PerryNational ReviewEgyptChuck HagelChinaBill BennettTed CruzJulian AssangeAfghanistanFilmIsraelGlenn BeckAnders BreivikJack HunterSyriaGeorge BushSan Diegoanti-warFalse FlagTim PawlentyRichard PerleDavid HorowitzMark DankofRonald ReaganFeithVideoLindsey GrahamPaul Craig RobertsConstitutionBenjamin NetanyahuGhorbanifarEmpireoilMarco RubioNeoconservatismWikiLeaksAnn CoulterMax BootSaudiNWOShiitesMcLeanSARTRE CommentaryJohn McCainAIPACPat BuchananCIABarack ObamaMexicoNewt GingrichIraqMediaOccupy Wall StreetColin PowellSorosPakistanMcCainMichael SavageChristopher HitchensMichelle BachmannGOPHerman Cainal-QaedaItalian IntelligenceDavid FrumWeekly StandardGadhafiSeymour HershRand PaulPaul WolfowitzCheneyScience Applications International CorporationMitt RomneyPaul GottfriedLibyaJohn BoltonMiddle EastDonald RumsfeldGary JohnsonBill ClintonRon PaulLlewellyn H. RockwellWashingtonTSAKevin MacDonaldEd SchultzElliott AbramsWarFrank GaffneyGlenn GreenwaldRick SantorumConspiracyJustin RaimondoLiberalsSatireDavid PetraeusEconomyPhil GiraldiIranPalestinian HamasCharles KrauthammerPaul RyanRobert KaganRush LimbaughHezbollahal QaedaHillary ClintonTea PartyZionismBill KristolInfoWarsSarah Palinneocons "counterfeit conservatives" exposedhttp://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)Blogger2540125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-3834863787088635996Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:00 +00002013-05-20T06:28:14.920-04:00Bill KristolNon-interventionists can learn a great deal by observing when the differing factions of the neo-conservative enterprise take to exposing each other. Take the Left-neocon New Republic, a magazine that hemorrhages money at such a rate that it literally had a hard time being given away until Facebook kid mega-millionaire Chris Hughes decided to snatch it up with pocket change as a child's toy. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/vvwdZrCRMaQ/bill-kristols-empire-of-death.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/bill-kristols-empire-of-death.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7600198240611516449Fri, 17 May 2013 20:32:00 +00002013-05-17T16:32:44.391-04:00anti-warThe war over war with Iran has many battlefronts. Inside Washington, the battle line is between a small coalition of peace and security, non-proliferation and religious groups opposing war and favoring a peaceful solution to the stand off with Iran, and a well-funded war machine comprising neoconservative organizations who believe war with Iran should have started years ago. A central http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/X3SDyi1SyIE/the-failed-neocon-attempt-to-destroy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-failed-neocon-attempt-to-destroy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-8188699729648307037Wed, 15 May 2013 10:30:00 +00002013-05-15T06:30:22.451-04:00McCainWhen I attended a conference of conservatives outside Washington recently, I talked with a number of retired special-operations officers. They were devoted to exposing the bureaucratic bungling that led to the deaths of two Navy SEALs in Libya last Sept. 11. I could see their point. The military has been badly served by the civilian leadership during the full 12 years of the so-called "War On http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/idd3LSqdcrY/benghazi-new-nadir-for-neocon-nuttiness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/benghazi-new-nadir-for-neocon-nuttiness.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7198061177064612206Mon, 13 May 2013 10:17:00 +00002013-05-13T06:17:59.739-04:00Justin RaimondoThe Heritage Foundation, which has been a bulwark of the War Party since its inception in 1973, has an annual budget of $82.4 million: much of this is spent lobbying on behalf of larger military appropriations and US military intervention worldwide. The American Enterprise Institute (otherwise known as Neocon Central) has an annual budget in excess of $30 million: an influential Washington actor http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/aEMvdP95De4/the-price-of-peace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-price-of-peace.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-9150963812625846674Mon, 13 May 2013 10:16:00 +00002013-05-13T06:17:44.271-04:00Foreign PolicyThe content of the recent speech by the US ambassador to Sri Lanka Michele J Sison to the Foreign Journalists’ Association in Colombo on the “next steps” for US engagement with Sri Lanka is typical of the forceful and uncivilised approach to diplomacy being practiced by US state department officials whose career rise roughly coincides with the neocon capture of the US government and the Armed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/S7-cF4nT2ok/time-to-tell-us-diplomats-who-is-boss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/time-to-tell-us-diplomats-who-is-boss.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-4777032714207633377Thu, 09 May 2013 17:08:00 +00002013-05-09T13:08:46.718-04:00Marco RubioAfter winning his Senate seat in 2010 Senator Marco Rubio did not even thank the Tea Party organization for his victory during his acceptance speech. In fact, when asked questions about the Tea Party Senator Rubio tries to distance himself from the Tea Party. Senator Rubio this February said that he backs Carl Rove’s Conservative Victory Project PAC as something worthwhile in order to get more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/S2RQZhMcoe4/neocon-champ-senator-marco-rubio-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/neocon-champ-senator-marco-rubio-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-4880046457388540156Thu, 09 May 2013 17:06:00 +00002013-05-09T13:07:09.784-04:00John Bolton Check out this report from the Washington Times about neocon John Bolton: The Benghazi scandal could be the final “hinge point” that brings down the Obama administration, former U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton said.“This could be the hinge point,” he said to Newsmax. “It’s that serious for them.”[...]His comments came as Congress is readying to hear testimony from several witnesses about http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/aISGUJIDbgs/is-there-neocon-plot-to-takedown.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-there-neocon-plot-to-takedown.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-4734723889493166326Wed, 08 May 2013 13:55:00 +00002013-05-08T09:55:38.286-04:00Media As most C-SPAN viewers know by now, the network’s callers are a different kind of “special.”   So when someone with a particularly clownish point/theory calls in, it’s not all that “newsworthy.” What is “newsworthy,” however, is when a C-SPAN guest responds to a particularly noxious caller by saying what everyone is thinking.   For instance, watch what happens when The Daily Beast’s Eli Lakehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/UiByYjUe1e0/reporter-on-c-span-eviscerates-viewer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/reporter-on-c-span-eviscerates-viewer.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-5303504288836489234Wed, 08 May 2013 13:52:00 +00002013-05-08T09:52:50.794-04:00Foreign PolicyIn particular, what persuaded Bill Keller? In his op-ed supporting invasion of Iraq, he gave two reasons. One was the influence of Kenneth Pollack. The second was the influence of the Bosnian example. However, neither one of these reasons explains his support of U.S. military interventions. Take the Pollack book that he says provided "intellectual cover". Pollack's assessments were totally wrong.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/Ci5PhbCRnX8/whats-behind-liberal-to-neocon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/whats-behind-liberal-to-neocon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-6999317001173895431Tue, 07 May 2013 13:16:00 +00002013-05-07T09:17:06.786-04:00NeoconservatismThe Washington Post's editorially bored: The resumption of sectarian war in Iraq alongside that of Syria would be devastating for the Middle East--and for the interests of the United States. The fragile gains of the Iraq war ... would be wiped out, and committed U.S. enemies such as al-Qaeda and Hezbollah would surge. The situation demands, as [former ambassador Ryan] Crocker put it, “a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/MVAI-HjLO6k/neocon-hangover-part-iii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/neocon-hangover-part-iii.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7710720425504383845Fri, 03 May 2013 12:58:00 +00002013-05-03T08:58:42.598-04:00John McCainSenator John McCain warns us that if we do not start bombing Syria, pronto, on behaf of the Islamist extremists who run the insurgency, the average Syrian who is terrorized by these foreign funded fighters will seek us out and...well, do something bad to us. It is the big lie that the neocons peddle that people overseas are just itching for a US bombing campaign or drone strike to "liberate" themhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/rdz-J-WNZZE/neocon-high-priest-mccain-on-why-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/neocon-high-priest-mccain-on-why-we.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-2549832763535031512Thu, 02 May 2013 10:55:00 +00002013-05-02T06:56:08.264-04:00NeoconservatismA while back I did a post focusing on U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who had in turn been profiled by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Politico as an exemplar of the obstructionist nature of the House GOP. Since then Cotton has gotten a lot of attention as a potential 2014 opponent of U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, generally considered the most vulnerable Senate Democrat thanks to the heavy redward swing of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/2OrqLIOW_jU/last-best-hope-for-neocons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/last-best-hope-for-neocons.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-1662069171629925776Thu, 02 May 2013 10:36:00 +00002013-05-02T06:36:49.402-04:00Llewellyn H. RockwellThe recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically diverse, the Ron Paul Institute reaches out to all Americans, and indeed to people all over the world, who find the spectrum of foreign-policy opinion in the United States to be unreasonably narrow. Until Ron Paul and his new http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/ZAFYVhojT60/another-nail-in-neocon-coffin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-nail-in-neocon-coffin.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-6982117211984686988Wed, 01 May 2013 15:13:00 +00002013-05-01T11:13:26.382-04:00Zionism The Boston bombings have taught us many things, although we have yet to unravel all the details. My heart goes out to those who have been hurt and wounded from the incident.   If there is something that decent Americans have to reflect upon throughout this year would be this: America needs to seriously and collectively reconsider its unconditional allegiance to the Zionist regime in Israel. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/hFGn7a2Bg4Y/the-boston-bombings-swing-in-israels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-boston-bombings-swing-in-israels.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-733699467784803401Wed, 01 May 2013 15:11:00 +00002013-05-01T11:11:28.964-04:00SyriaWhat do the most hawkish neocons desire in Syria? A full US military presence in the air and on the ground. In recent days, hawks on the right (and the left) have pumped up the volume in calling for US military action in Syria. Last week, President Barack Obama sent a letter to key members of Congress saying that US intelligence has obtained evidence of "small-scale" use of chemical weapons, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/sQAnQgQTpb0/how-to-be-good-neocon-when-it-comes-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-be-good-neocon-when-it-comes-to.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-487984820990929550Wed, 01 May 2013 15:09:00 +00002013-05-01T11:09:47.033-04:00George BushAm I the first to notice that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham bears a striking resemblance to the Mad Hatter in the Disney version of "Alice in Wonderland"? (compare videos below) I first noticed their similarity a couple of months ago at a panel discussion on national security at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Graham, who is perhaps the leading proponent of the so-called "neohttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/vlEWQ7WdCEg/the-real-george-w-bush-legacy-end-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-real-george-w-bush-legacy-end-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7981318714137959833Wed, 01 May 2013 15:07:00 +00002013-05-01T11:08:05.871-04:00SyriaPresident Barack Obama’s foolish statement that the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war would constitute a “red line” and grounds for U.S. military action in that country played directly into the hands of those neocons in Congress who want to see American troops in action in the Middle East again.In the past few days, Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Saxby Chambliss and (House http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/agDRmGJS2F0/just-say-no-to-neocon-demands-for-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/just-say-no-to-neocon-demands-for-war.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-3977307785895421691Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:14:00 +00002013-04-26T04:15:06.999-04:00Ron PaulThe Daily Caller wags its finger at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity because of the two libertarian professors it has on its board, Butler Shaffer and Walter Block. (Thanks to Lew Rockwell for the link.) The problems with these men are many: Read the entire articlehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/2Py1fYxjXSI/neocons-attack-ron-paul-peace-institute.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/neocons-attack-ron-paul-peace-institute.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7844500641078793958Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:52:00 +00002013-04-26T04:12:12.551-04:00al-QaedaI almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored animosity toward the U.S.; Guiliani thought they were only focused on Russia. Giuliani knows full well how the Chechen “terrorists”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/nj3JhggYyMA/boston-bombing-logical-blowback-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-bombing-logical-blowback-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-6805873115323199813Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:49:00 +00002013-04-24T06:50:26.402-04:00Israel A commentator tells Press TV that the bellicose neocon doctrine of the United States and Israel is to wage preemptive wars on whomever they perceive as a threat while Iran is only trying to defend itself. US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Yaalon have finalized a new arms deal worth USD 10 billion.. Hagel is set to visit Cairo, then Riyadh and Abu http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/U9klMzMgjss/us-israel-pursue-neocon-policy-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/us-israel-pursue-neocon-policy-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-9113915782754548256Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:51:00 +00002013-04-21T23:51:37.094-04:00Foreign PolicyI almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored animosity toward the U.S.; Guiliani thought they were only focused on Russia. Giuliani knows full well howhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/5Fw8JOov0Mc/chechen-terrorists-and-neocons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/chechen-terrorists-and-neocons.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-1928416868574484703Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:16:00 +00002013-04-20T06:18:55.877-04:00NeoconservatismAt first glance, Anne Applebaum seems a fairly standard issue Neoconservative Princess, equipped with Blue Chip educational credentials, the string of plum posts and awards with which these people adorn one another, and a record of attacking Anne Coulter. Having said, that her fine new book Iron Curtain:The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-56, which I have almost finished, is a valuable account http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/NHhc2Gs8zlo/reality-dawns-neocon-princess-wonders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/reality-dawns-neocon-princess-wonders.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-3022765885726080922Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:25:00 +00002013-04-15T06:25:49.398-04:00Rand PaulThere’s no doubt to me that Rand Paul is referencing the Neocon evangelical camp, and he’s speaking from the faux-libertarian evangelical camp. This rift widened and proponents from both sides started quiet infighting behind the scenes a couple of years before the end of Bush’s last term. It’s essentially the troofer far right vs. the Neocon hard right, initially the Neocons had the upper hand http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/-1iBZ6ToIEI/rand-paul-takes-poke-at-neocon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/rand-paul-takes-poke-at-neocon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7560368244520726548Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:48:00 +00002013-04-14T06:48:53.012-04:00GOPAllen West is unable to answer simple questions about defense strategy and spending. He doesn't know what would happen if somebody attacked Russia. He doesn't know what would happen if somebody attacked us. He can't explain why we have to spend 12 times as much as any other country on defense spending. Watch this link that exposes his ignorance. Allen West, fmr. Congressman, on defense spending.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/phLfD3TuN0w/allen-west-another-neocon-down-for-count.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/allen-west-another-neocon-down-for-count.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-3852110637766621878Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:44:00 +00002013-04-14T06:44:55.345-04:00Barack Obama The tragic comedy of the phony War on Terror is being exposed as never before for the sham that it is. Press TV reported yesterday the opening of the MKO terrorist organization office a block away from the White House. What a message that sends to the world...that we look out for our terrorists and take good care of them, but it just might take a little time to do it. This is the group who http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/_NJma3Lu8OI/obama-neocons-openly-back-terrorism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/obama-neocons-openly-back-terrorism.html