The Latest Neocon Con by David Michael Green

[Martin Eden]

The Latest Neocon Con: At the UN, As Elsewhere, If Their Lips Are Moving, They’re Lying

by David Michael Green

Here’s a shocker: conservatives (I prefer the term ‘regressives’) are being dishonest with the American people. This time it concerns the United Nations, and their subtle disinformation campaign aimed at debilitating, if not destroying, an institution which is important and popular even in the United States, but one which they passionately despise.

As usual, these regressives have shown themselves more masterful at marketing their falsehoods than any political figures we’ve seen this side of the 1930s. And so they must be, for to tell the truth about their ideas would condemn them to the garbage can where American public opinion rightly places such national disasters as massive deficits, wars of imperialism, and the privatization of Social Security.

This week, as the Senate contemplates whether to send to the United Nations one of the most hostile imaginable of these neanderthals to represent the United States, it would serve us well to step back and take a long view of the neoconservative game concerning the UN, and the very concepts of international governance and law.

The first rule of analysis with these guys is, of course, accept nothing at face value. So, when you hear them discuss the scandals at the UN, the reform needed to address them, the expressed desire for a more effective institution, or America’s difficulties there, forget it completely. These folks are just as interested in saving the UN as an effective institution as they are in saving Social Security.

much, much More:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0413-21.htm

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1. Excellent!