Robert Parry: How Neocons Destabilized Europe

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/32304-how-neocons-destabilized-europe

Instead of the promised wonders of “democracy promotion” and “human rights,” what these “anti-realists” have accomplished is to spread death, destruction and destabilization across the Middle East and parts of Africa and now into Ukraine and the heart of Europe. Yet, since these neocon forces still control the Official Narrative, their explanations get top billing – such as that there hasn’t been enough “regime change.”

For instance, The Washington Post’s neocon editorial page editor Fred Hiatt on Monday blamed “realists” for the cascading catastrophes. Hiatt castigated them and President Barack Obama for not intervening more aggressively in Syria to depose President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime neocon target for “regime change.”

But the truth is that this accelerating spread of human suffering can be traced back directly to the unchecked influence of the neocons and their liberal fellow-travelers who have resisted political compromise and, in the case of Syria, blocked any realistic efforts to work out a power-sharing agreement between Assad and his political opponents, those who are not terrorists.

In early 2014, the neocons and liberal hawks sabotaged Syrian peace talks in Geneva by blocking Iran’s participation and turning the peace conference into a one-sided shouting match where U.S.-funded opposition leaders yelled at Assad’s representatives who then went home. All the while, the Post’s editors and their friends kept egging Obama to start bombing Assad’s forces.

The madness of this neocon approach grew more obvious in the summer of 2014 when the Islamic State, an Al Qaeda spinoff which had been slaughtering suspected pro-government people in Syria, expanded its bloody campaign of beheadings back into Iraq where this hyper-brutal movement first emerged as “Al Qaeda in Iraq” in response to the 2003 U.S. invasion.

[nationalize the fed]

1. ^

But the truth is that this accelerating spread of human suffering can be traced back directly to the unchecked influence of the neocons and their liberal fellow-travelers who have resisted political compromise and, in the case of Syria, blocked any realistic efforts to work out a power-sharing agreement between Assad and his political opponents, those who are not terrorists.

Parry tells the truth no matter the consequences.

Notice all the silence surrounding the Libyan refugees, dying in the Med. Because "Regime Change". Disgusting. But Tripoli has a Cinnabon.

[eridani]

2. If federalism is good for the US and Canada, why not Ukraine? n/t

[pampango]

6. True, though federalism for some states and not others is problematic. If our South had 'federalism'

but not the rest of the country, I could see how that could cause problems.

[MisterP]

8. it's not good for radical or integralist leadership--everyone must be the same,

everyone must follow THEIR shining vision of an invincible nation bestriding the earth

it's like the separatists in Quebec: they have everything they wanted and cushy transfer payments they take credit for--so what do they do? play their hand and pick on the Jews, Anglos, and Muslims; Ceausescu banned abortion to have 100 million Romanians and take over Europe

[brer cat]

3. "The madness of this neocon approach ..."

And there is the crux: madness. Those who believe war is the answer to all problems and who obstruct and sabotage more measured peaceful solutions are insane, filled with the lust for blood and power.

[bemildred]

5. Yep, they are crazy as shithouse rats, the ones who are not just stupid.

Look at Cheney. The uncrazy ones know to shutup and not bring attention to themselves now, but not Cheney, he is nuts.

[malaise]

4. +1,000

Rec

[TubbersUK]

7. Thanks for posting

Looking over that history, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the neocons and their Middle-East allies see chaos and instability as an acceptable, perhaps desirable, outcome in certain ME countries.

It's the liberal hawks I just can't fathom. Why do they persist ? Naivety? Domestic ambition/political expediency?

Madness indeed.