Neocon ‘Chaos Promotion’ in the Mideast

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Neocon ‘Chaos Promotion’ in the Mideast
by
Ray McGovern
CommonDreams.org

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/14/neocon-chaos-promotion-mideast


Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
were key architects of the Iraq War debacle under President George W. Bush. (Photo: file)

Former Washington insider and four-star General Wesley Clark spilled the beans several years ago on how Paul Wolfowitz and his neoconservative co-conspirators implemented their sweeping plan to destabilize key Middle Eastern countries once it became clear that post-Soviet Russia “won’t stop us.”

As I recently reviewed a YouTube eight-minute clip of General Clark’s October 2007 speech, what leaped out at me was that the neocons had been enabled by their assessment that – after the collapse of the Soviet Union – Russia had become neutralized and posed no deterrent to U.S. military action in the Middle East.

While Clark’s public exposé largely escaped attention in the neocon-friendly “mainstream media” (surprise, surprise!), he recounted being told by a senior general at the Pentagon shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 about the Donald Rumsfeld/Paul Wolfowitz-led plan for “regime change” in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.

This was startling enough, I grant you, since officially the United States presents itself as a nation that respects international law, frowns upon other powerful nations overthrowing the governments of weaker states, and – in the aftermath of World War II – condemned past aggressions by Nazi Germany and decried Soviet “subversion” of pro-U.S. nations.

Continued:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/14/neocon-chaos-promotion-mideast

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1. Are the neocons "old news" now?

We knew about these folks years ago on this site and it seems we are losing perspective on one of the major players that is lighting the world on fire? This should get much more attention.