June 12, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

NEOCON "IDEALISM"

Now that Iraq has descended into chaos and unending bloodshed, we're told that the neocons who advocated this war had good intentions, even if the results were horrible. I guess I'm cynical about everything conservative. I don't believe there is much idealism in conservatism. I believe it is a philosophy based on exploitation of other human beings, based on exploitation of other species, and based on exploitation of natural resources. At its core is a Social Darwinist belief that survival of the fittest is the way things should be. Higher motivations such as compassion and peace are weak, according to conservatives, and a drag on the "achievers." This article by Chris Christensen is at www.onlinejournal.com:

So the neocons do fly the flag of idealism, but always below the banner of their first love: military buildup and war. Of course, one could argue that invasion and occupation have to come first in the discussion because that is the means by which the ideal -- democracy -- is to be achieved. If one accepts the flawed premise that democracy can take root in an imperial bomb crater, the argument is not without a veneer of logic. But there’s another PNAC document that doesn’t even attempt to paper over the militarism.

A 90-page report of September 2000, entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” argues for permanent bases in southeast Europe and southeast Asia. It states that the U.S. must have the capability to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major-theater wars. It contends that the U.S. should “control the ‘new international commons’ of space and cyberspace, and pave the way for the creation of a new military service -- the U.S. Space Force -- with the mission of space control.”

The report also argues that the U.S. military should play a “constabulary” role in the world. All of these recommendations bristle with militaristic, anti-democratic fantasy, but it’s this “constabulary” business that best illustrates the neocons’ true colors. In America, the local constable, or sheriff, usually gets the job democratically -- by running for election. If a group of local citizens proposed seizing the badge by force, they’d be laughed out of town or arrested and thrown in the loony bin. Yet the neocons, supposed champions of democracy, propose that very thing for the entire planet, and are taken seriously by many.