The Neocons' Crazy Dream of World War III

[Echo In Light]

The Neocons' Crazy Dream of World War III
By Rodrigue Tremblay - BLN Contributing Writer

"I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III."

George W. Bush, May 5, 2006

In February 2002, neocon journalist Norman Podhoretz (a leading warmonger who is currently senior adviser to Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani) wrote an article calling for a new World War. He did it again in an article titled "World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win" (Commentary magazine, September 2004), calling for what he called "World War IV", i.e. a war against the country of Iran that he demonized by calling its leaders "Islamofascists", who cannot be trusted with having nuclear weapons as can some other countries in the region that already have them (Israel, Russia, Pakistan, India).

Podhoretz and other fellow neocons label their pet world war "World War IV" because they have decided that the Cold War was really “World War III“.

As a matter of fact, there never was a Third World War between the nuclear-armed USA and the USSR. Indeed, because of the policy of containment and deterrence, such a nuclear holocaust was avoided and the world lived through the last half of the 20th century in relative peace.

Unless one is a madman, nobody in his right mind would contemplate a nuclear world war that would likely kill hundreds of millions of human beings, and which could bring forth the collapse of civilization, and lead to the extermination of human life on earth. Indeed, nuclear armaments have made total war a crime against humanity and civilization. It is of paramount importance to avoid such a calamity.

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[BridgeTheGap]

1. More like a crazy nightmare

These are seriously deluded people!!!

[Perry Logan]

2. They're switching gears because the "Islamofascist" bullshit isn't going over.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I was thrown for a loop yesterday as I had a REASONED discussion

with a well-educated and cultured man who also happens to be a neocon. He could explain Podhoretz in great detail, make his case, and went as far as describing "Islam" as "the most dangerous religion".

I used to blow off neocons as people without imagination or brains, who only repeated the last thing they heard, but this man is a psychiatrist, a doctor, a former military officer, and he's full of koolaid.

My unease emanates from the awareness that our arguments cannot permeate even the educated "elite" and where do we go from here?