This video says about itself:
30 September 2008
Dr Agha Saeed speaks with authors Michael Parenti, Tariq Ali, and Peter Dale Scott on neocons and the future of the American Empire.
There is a new cartoon on United States neoconservatives is by Jen Sorensen.
She explains it here.
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*Used [Neocon] Hawks Flock to Giuliani’s Team*
Posted by: “hapi22” hapi22@earthlink.net
Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:02 am (PST)
If you like what the neocons have done to America (and the world),
you’ll LOVE Rudy Giuliani.
The neocons are signing on to the Rudy Giuliani campaign in droves.
But is [Giuliani] really the candidate who will “keep Americans
safer” if his primary tactic is to go “on offense” in the “long
war,” as he often puts it in his campaign stump speech? Critics will
say that the neocons already tried that — in Iraq. Still, what’s
left of the neocon movement does seem to be converging around the
Giuliani campaign, to some degree, because he embraces their common
themes: a willingness to use military power, a tendency to group all
radical Islamist groups together as a common enemy, strong support
for Israel and an aggressive posture toward Iran.”
Rudy Giuliani was NOT on either “defense” OR “offense” while he was NYC
mayor. Rudy took office shortly after the first terrorist bombing of the
World Trade Center in 1993. Yet, for the entire eight years he was
mayor, Rudy Giuliani NEVER held a single inter-agency emergency drill to
prepare the City or the World Trade Center to deal with the next
terrorist attack — which the terrorists had publicly SWORN to commit.
Rudy was asleep at the switch.
What does this say about Rudy’s vision OR judgment?
Not only that, but Rudy — against the warnings of advisors NOT to do so
— installed his multi-million dollar mayor’s emergency command center
on the 23rd floor of World Trade Tower Seven, which collapsed on 9/11
and was completely UNUSABLE.
What does this say about Rudy’s vision OR judgment?
Rudy Giuliani recommended his friend and business partner, BERNIE KERIK,
to be the nation’s Homeland Security Czar, in spite of Kerik’s complete
incompetence and Kerik’s shady doings [Kerik is currently under federal
investigation for federal bribery, obstruction of justice and tax
evasion . U.S. Department of Justice sources anticipate that federal
authorities will secure an indictment against Kerik in November,
2007,… Kerik has already pleaded GUILTY to ethics violations and has
paid a fine of $221,000]. See “Bernie Kerik Makes Last Plea to Avoid
Federal Indictment” at: http://tinyurl.com/2dp8l4
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/10/12/111617/76
What does this say about Rudy’s vision OR judgment?
But, back to the neocons who are flocking to the Rudy Giuliani campaign:
“Clearly [the neocons are] a rather one-sided group of people,”
says Dimitri Simes of the Nixon Center, a Washington think tank.
“Their foreign-policy manifesto seems to be ‘We’re right, we’re
powerful, and just make my day.’ [Giuliani] is out-Bushing Bush.”
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**Used Hawks Flock to Giuliani’s Team*
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/by Michael Hirsh
NEWSWEEK/
/Oct 15, 2007 Issue/
Neocons can’t help but slink around Washington, D.C. The Iraq War has
given the neoconservatives — who favor the assertive use of American
power abroad to spread American values — something of a bad name, and
several of the Republican candidates seem less than eager to hire them
as advisers. But Rudy Giuliani
http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Rudolph+Giuliani
apparently never got that memo. One of the top foreign-policy
consultants to the leading GOP candidate is Norman Podhoretz
http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Norman+Podhoretz, a
founding father of the neocon movement.
Podhoretz is in favor of bombing Iran
because of the
country’s unwillingness to suspend its uranium-enrichment program. He
also believes America is engaged in a “world war” with “Islamofascism”
and that Giuliani is the only man who can win it. “I decided to join
Giuliani’s team because his view of the war — what I call World War IV
— is very close to my own,” Podhoretz tells NEWSWEEK. (World War III,
in his view, was the cold war.) “And also because he has the qualities
of a wartime leader, including a fighting spirit and a determination to
win.”
Giuliani clearly hopes this image, born of his heroic performance on
9/11, can carry him to the GOP nomination and to the White House. But is
he really the candidate who will “keep Americans safer” if his primary
tactic is to go “on offense” in the “long war,” as he often puts it in
his campaign stump speech? Critics will say that the neocons already
tried that — in Iraq. Still, what’s left of the neocon movement does
seem to be converging around the Giuliani campaign, to some degree,
because he embraces their common themes: a willingness to use military
power, a tendency to group all radical Islamist groups together as a
common enemy, strong support for Israel
and an aggressive
posture toward Iran. “He’s positioning himself as the neo-neocon,” jokes
Richard Holbrooke, a top foreign-policy adviser to Hillary Clinton
.
Among the core consultants surrounding Giuliani: Martin Kramer, who has
led an attack on U.S. Middle Eastern scholars since 9/11 for being soft
on terrorism; Stephen Rosen, a hawkish professor at Harvard who
advocates major new spending on defense and is close to prominent
neoconservative Bill Kristol; former Wisconsin senator Bob Kasten, who
often sided with the neocons during the Reagan era and was an untiring
supporter of aid to Israel, and Daniel Pipes, who has advocated for the
racial profiling of Muslim Americans. (He’s argued that the internment
of Japanese-Americans during World War II was not the moral offense it’s
been portrayed as, though he doesn’t say Muslims should suffer the same.)
Some traditional conservatives are wary of the Giuliani team. “Clearly
it is a rather one-sided group of people,” says Dimitri Simes of the
Nixon Center, a Washington think tank. “Their foreign-policy manifesto
seems to be ‘We’re right, we’re powerful, and just make my day.’ He’s
out-Bushing Bush.” Giuliani campaign spokeswoman Maria Comella says that
while the candidate listens to these advisers because “he wants to have
as much information as possible, at the end of the day he makes his own
decisions.” In some speeches and writings, Giuliani has clearly departed
from the more extreme views of Podhoretz — who has said he “hopes and
prays” that Bush bombs Iran — and others. His foreign-affairs team
also consists of those who take a more centrist view, chief among them
his policy coordinator, Yale scholar Charles Hill, who is more skeptical
of policies like democracy promotion than most neocons. “I don’t really
know much about neoconservatives,” Hill tells NEWSWEEK, adding that the
team engages in “lively discussions.” Asked recently in London about
Iran, Giuliani said he hoped to avoid military action in the end, but he
indicated that the threat of using it should be made plain. “I believe
the United States and our allies should deliver a very clear message to
Iran, very clear, very sober, very serious: they will not be allowed to
become a nuclear power,” he said. Podhoretz, by contrast, tells
NEWSWEEK: “I believe that a bombing campaign is the only way to prevent
Iran from acquiring a nuclear capability.”
Regardless of any differences on Iran, Giuliani’s neocons are in line
with his pro-Israel stance. As mayor of New York — home to the largest
Jewish community in the United States — Giuliani became renowned in the
1990s for his aggressive support of Israel and his mistrust of
Palestinian leaders. In 1995, with the Oslo peace process underway,
Giuliani kicked Yasir Arafat out of a concert for world leaders at
Lincoln Center. Arafat “has never been held to answer for the murders he
was implicated in,” the mayor said. On a trip to Israel in 2001,
Giuliani told an Israeli audience: “We’re together with you. We are
bound by blood.” Earlier this year, in an interview with Foreign Affairs
magazine, Giuliani suggested that “too much emphasis” had been placed on
promoting negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. He said “it
is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being
threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist in the creation of another
state that will support terrorism.” One of his advisers, Pipes, has
advocated “razing [Palestinian] villages from which attacks are launched.”>>
Read this and the rest at:: http://www.newsweek.com/id/42460
Also read:
*”Neocon hawks go all-out for Giuliani”:*
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/16/2007-09-16_neocon_hawks_go_allout_for_giuliani.html
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