QUESTION: You have mentioned that the neocons never look behind the end of the nose. Do they ever assess the risks correctly? Is it because they are just biased by what you have pointed out in Wolfowitz’s policy?
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ANSWER: I have studied military tactics. As I have said, my father was a colonel with General Patton from North Africa to Berlin. In any military action, you must begin every operation with a detailed look at the enemy. Before a commander approves a mission, the staff MUST explain the opposing force’s capabilities, intentions, and likely courses of action. Get the threat wrong, and everything that follows rests on a false assumption. This is what happened in this Iran debacle.
Netanyahu is a sick, biased Neocon. He always operates with the goal of trying to assassinate the leadership and assumes he will be victorious. That strategy has NEVER worked even once. But as they say, the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake and assuming a different outcome.
I know for a fact that war game simulation with Iran conduct a decade ago all showed that Iran would take the Strait of Hormuz. There was no strategic planning. This is Netanyahu’s mess and the Neocons escorted him into the Situation Room to see this same stupid idea of instant victory with ZERO plan B contemplation. They did that with Iraq and there was ZERO planning for what would happen by taking out Saddam. They also completely ignored that taking out Saddam, they removed the #1 enemy of Iran.
My discussions even back in early 1990s with these Neocons was all about taking out Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, and Lebanon and it was to protect Israel. What Wesley Clark says here after 911, fits with what I was told in the early ’90s. As I have said, they created Homeland Security claiming that various agencies had information but did not share it. The first crew of terrorists were in Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC) and even drew the Twin Towers on the wall with planes going into them. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Mr. Kumb provided the recreation materials they used. The BOP came down to 10 South and filmed everything. Their lawyer, Lynne Stewart (1939-2017), was imprisoned for passing them notes for 4 years.
The Neocons assume that the US has the largest and most powerful military so they need only wage war with no strategy to win. This is why we get into these endless wars for they is ZERO planning. There is never an exit strategy. And they always have zero strategy for any aftermath.
These people are traitors to our country. They always seek to abuse the military power for personal agendas. That is no different from insider trading for monetary profit, but they have no regard for the lives lost for their military campaigns as if this is still some child’s game of RISK.
Neoconservative foreign policy is dangerously ideological and willing to accept significant human costs to achieve its goals. The question are they just “psychopaths” since the care nothing about the people they send to war perhaps can’t be proven or disproven since that is a clinical diagnosis.
Nevertheless, their personal motivation clearly colors or foreign policy outcomes, driven by their ideology, and decision-making processes. They clearly have no empathy for individuals whatsoever. Their ideological zeal comes at extremely high costs that extend beyond just the people who they send to their death. More than 50% of the national debt is all because of their reckless spending on endless wars and then perpetual servicing of that debt undermines the economy and erodes the living standards of the average American subjecting society to ever increasing proportion of GDP consumed by government.
The book America Alone, details the neoconservative influence on the George W. Bush administration. It illustrates that this group pushed a foreign policy emphasizing military confrontation, leading to the Iraq War, with consequences yielded no benefit to the USA or Israel. This neoconservatism has been a movement focused on achieving and maintaining unchallenged U.S. military dominance as set forth in the Wolfowitz Doctrine. This quest for world domination has led to a series of perpetual wars of choice and confrontations with powers like Russia, pushing the world closer to major conflict.
This entire movement has been so misplaced and it washes its hands in blood while stuffing their pockets with money. Their entire premise has been built on a disdain of historical evidence entirely based on a false premise that U.S. military superiority can dictate terms worldwide. Because of this delusional idea of military power, this had led to a reckless series of endless wars that have undermined the economy and cast a shadow over the entire image of the United States as being the beacon of liberty and justice for all. They maneuver dominating every administration regardless of party affiliation.
They convince themselves that they wear the white hats and are seeking to dominate the world to bring DEMOCRACY when in fact the very proof that they are unelected and infiltrate each and every administration to usurp American foreign policy proves that we do not live in a Democracy at all. This is NEVER in the interest of the people no less the nation. I know of no politician who would dare to cross swords with these people proving that they in fact control American foreign policy. No president nor Congress call the shots any more.