tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:34:10 +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 SantorumConspiracyLiberalsJustin RaimondoSatireDavid PetraeusEconomyPhil GiraldiIranPalestinian HamasCharles KrauthammerPaul RyanRobert KaganRush LimbaughHezbollahal QaedaHillary ClintonTea PartyZionismBill KristolInfoWarsSarah Palinneocons "counterfeit conservatives" exposedhttp://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)Blogger2552125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-1876450841376935444Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:33:00 +00002013-06-15T06:34:10.926-04:00Ron Paulhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/oN6XucQ91Wc/ron-paul-destroys-neo-con-argument-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/ron-paul-destroys-neo-con-argument-on.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7666475595818258096Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +00002013-06-15T06:31:37.834-04:00Foreign PolicyThe US security state keeps growing. Any communications of possible interest are read under the impossibly vague anti-terrorism laws. If I am a subject of interest because I read Muslim religious sites on the internet, then anyone who emails me also becomes a suspect, and anyone who contacts them, and so ad infinitum. The endless faux "war on terror" sanctions all violations of personal rights. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/0njsgKqr7JI/nsa-neocon-spying-agency-americans-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/nsa-neocon-spying-agency-americans-are.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-3344656012218174158Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:14:00 +00002013-06-13T11:14:25.268-04:00Max BootDaniel Larison dismantles Max Boot’s unhinged argument that we should get involved in the Syrian civil war to “settle the score” with Hezbollah: To seek to “settle” a score from 1983 by increasing U.S. involvement in a potentially even more dangerous civil war in Syria is nothing more than the foolish pursuit of revenge. It also demonstrates a complete failure to understand the original error http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/8lUAYkJzIzU/the-neocon-pathology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-neocon-pathology.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-5468608428886175126Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:56:00 +00002013-06-11T16:56:57.746-04:00Max BootTaking to the pages of Commentary to criticize Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, Max Boot offers a paragraph that may be the quintessential example of neoconservative boosterism and its dangers. Writes Boot of Snowden: He claims he is willing to sacrifice a comfortable lifestyle in Hawaii "because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/KeRFNylaDdE/a-perfect-distillation-of-neocon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-perfect-distillation-of-neocon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-6380630980856301333Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:58:00 +00002013-06-08T06:58:53.336-04:00NeoconservatismOne might argue that because they’re less enthralled with democratization, Krauthammer and Bolton aren’t real neocons. But it’s a mistake to put democratization at neoconservatism’s core. Kristol, Kagan, and Abrams are more optimistic than Krauthammer and Bolton that democracy can promote American hegemony, but even for them, democracy is valuable primarily as a means to that end. Kristol and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/1ACHdhU2ciE/hey-lets-say-imperialist-instead-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/hey-lets-say-imperialist-instead-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-4748392242169208838Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:56:00 +00002013-06-08T06:56:31.752-04:00Llewellyn H. Rockwell. . . yet again in an amateurish rehash of nineteenth-century Republican Party propaganda (a.k.a., "Straussianism") in the form of a National Neocon Review cover story titled "Defending Lincoln."  The way to become politically relevant and win over America's youth, says Rich Lowry (who apparently will always look like he just started shaving last week) is to continue to libel and smear Ron Paul http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/2ovBnZoVyNM/desperate-neocons-dig-up-rotted-smelly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/desperate-neocons-dig-up-rotted-smelly.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7444885265971752112Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:11:00 +00002013-06-07T07:12:00.136-04:00LiberalsPeter Beinart wants everyone to stop talking about the neoconservatives. Perhaps, if we stop talking about them, they’ll go away? No, it’s not that. Beinart, of course, was once a fellow traveler of sorts with the neocons, as editor of The New Republic from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, when its publisher at the time, Marty Peretz, would reasonably qualify as a neocon or “quasi-neoconhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/HdaPKuNHqNM/peter-beinarts-misguided-attack-on-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/peter-beinarts-misguided-attack-on-me.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-8970272453696614362Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:07:00 +00002013-06-06T07:08:09.722-04:00NeoconservatismPeter Beinart thinks “neoconservatism” has lost any distinctive meaning. It no longer has anything to do with the kind of right-leaning empirical social science that characterized the original neoconservatives, nor does it imply someone who used to be on the left but moved right. Nor does it distinctively mean a hawk or an advocate of spreading democracy, since there are liberals who favor http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/TM2EeLkjk5I/too-many-imperialisms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/too-many-imperialisms.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-1220913961845191917Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:05:00 +00002013-06-04T15:06:13.250-04:00SyriaThe corporate media were infested today with neocons like Danielle Pletka, Jennifer Rubin and Chris Wallace who insisted that only US intervention in Syria would make the world safe. Pletka and Rubin descended in their arguments to the truth of their position.  This position is that Iran will be emboldened by what they  call US "weakness" in Syria.  Yes, that's right, its's all about Israel for http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/4I2iz9YTuNk/neocon-rage-over-syria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/neocon-rage-over-syria.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-675992808136060436Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:47:00 +00002013-06-01T14:47:13.918-04:00al-QaedaThere was never an organization known as Al Qaeda, not until now.  “Phony Al Qaeda” was an imaginary boogeyman enemy constructed out of false flag terrorists employed by a variety of intelligence agencies to bring the world to economic collapse.  History makes this hypothesis a “slam dunk.” There was no “Al Qaeda,” a extremist, jihadist movement intent on warring against Christianity on behalf http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/BmvXeprRgkc/al-qaeda-private-army-of-americas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/al-qaeda-private-army-of-americas.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-5134703311883940076Fri, 31 May 2013 17:44:00 +00002013-05-31T13:44:50.397-04:00NeoconservatismThe neocon hawks are squawking again. But perhaps that's a mischaracterization. The word “again” implies there had been a cessation in their lustful exhortations for ever-increasing levels of death and destruction to be wrought by United States government military power. There hasn't been. Instead, their latest screed cable news battlefield is simply more focused, and it is none other than our http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/cdpGcHKg0VE/the-neocon-yawp.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-neocon-yawp.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493276.post-7220436257981723842Fri, 24 May 2013 13:35:00 +00002013-05-24T09:35:39.642-04:00Barack ObamaPresident Obama gave a national security speech this afternoon. It appears that many are latching onto the following statement from the speech: "This war, like all wars, must end." He was referring to the War on Terror, and supposedly the statement shows that a different approach or tone is being taken than that of George W. Bush.I don't buy it for a second.I immediately thought of the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NeoconWatch/~3/dxfHVm_c2NU/if-neocon-is-happy-with-obama-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0http://batrneoconwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-neocon-is-happy-with-obama-you.htmltag: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.html