As Green as a Neocon

[complain jane]

As Green as a Neocon
Why Iraq hawks are driving Priuses.
By Robert Bryce
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005, at 6:10 AM PT

President Bush has a simple policy about energy: produce more of it. The former oilman has packed his administration with veterans of the oil and coal industries. And for most of the first Bush term, his energy policy and his foreign policy were joined at the hip. Since the Bush administration believed that controlling the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf was critically important to the American economy, the invasion of Iraq seemed to serve both the president's energy goals and his foreign policy ones.

But a curious transformation is occurring in Washington, D.C., a split of foreign policy and energy policy: Many of the leading neoconservatives who pushed hard for the Iraq war are going green. James Woolsey, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and staunch backer of the Iraq war, now drives a 58-miles-per-gallon Toyota Prius and has two more hybrid vehicles on order. Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy and another neocon who championed the war, has been speaking regularly in Washington about fuel efficiency and plant-based bio-fuels.

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Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2112608/

[blindpig]

1. wishful thinking

The neocons are where they are today because their schemes coincide with those of the petrochemical bund. When there is divergence they will be left in the dust and greed will find a new philosophy and facade.