Rick Perry's Neocon Friends

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/162782/rick-perrys-neocon-friends

No one seriously believes that Republicans will nominate the wild-eyed, certifiable Michele Bachmann for president, and Romney the Robot isn’t setting Tea Party hearts aflutter. So it looks like Rick Perry, the Bible-thumping, secessionist hawk—who’s already assembling a team of neoconservative advisers—will get the nod to challenge President Obama in 2012.

Were Perry to win, his victory—especially if the GOP, as seems likely, conquers the Senate—will speed the United States down the merry path to oblivion at least a couple of decades before the rise of China and India do anyway. Worryingly, Perry might be exactly the know-nothing hawk who decides to use US military power to forestall America’s inevitable decline by force, even if it leads to World War III. Like Tea Party fanatics who courted financial Armageddon by insisting that reneging on US debt obligations wouldn’t be so bad, Perry’s own Tea Party Pentagon, staffed by neoconservatives, might decide the nuclear Armageddon wouldn’t be so bad, either, as long as it makes the world understand how exceptional American exceptionalism is.

Indeed, as James Lindsey points out for the Council on Foreign Relations, in his screed, Fed Up: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, a book that he allegedly wrote, Perry declares that “exceptional” America has to be prepared for war with China and India:

“We are now confronted with the rise of new economic and military powerhouses in China and India, as well as a Russia that is increasingly aggressive and troublesome to its neighbors and former satellite nations that are struggling to maintain their relatively newfound independence. There is no reason to believe that armed conflict with any major power is imminent, but the world is rapidly changing, and the United States must be prepared for the ramifications of shifting balances of power.”





***war w/ china & india?:eyes:

[Tennessee Gal]

1. Rick Perry is an idiot who cannot be unleashed upon this nation.

Thanks for the post.

[DCKit]

2. The book was either ghostwritten, or Satan dictated it while Perry slept.

That one paragraph is all the proof I need.

C'mon! They ALL have books out. It's just what you do before running for pResident. If anything, it's the best indicator of who is, or isn't, going to declare their candidacy.

[Enthusiast]

3. We have to have a new war

to justify all this military spending. And we're gonna have one. You can bet on it. And millions of us will suffer for the ignorance of a relative few Teabagster types.

[BiggJawn]

4. Our stockpile of war goodies is too big.

We need to find somebody to unleash them on so Raytheon and Company can make more to sell us to keep our stockpile too big so we can find somebody ELSE to unleash them on...

Bloated military industry? Check.

Money pit war in Afghanistan? Check.

Populace that can only find work in the Army? Check.

System of Government that is on the brink of ruin? Check.

Threatening war with other nations? Check.

Oh, my. we've become the pre-1991 Soviet Union...