As doggedly as eriposte of the left coaster sticks to the Niger Forgery story, and Murray Waas leads the way with the Plame story and the N.S.A. spying, Glenn Greenwald of Unclaimed Territory has persisted in elucidating the neoconservative subtext of the Bush Administration’s antics. In his recent post, Neoconservatism and the White House — Still Married, he makes it clear that the bond is as tight as ever.
Given what neoconservatism has revealed itself to be, that the administration continues to be driven by its "principles" is nothing short of alarming. The opportunities for even unintentional American involvement and escalation in this new war — through miscalculation, deliberate provocation or simple accident — are manifold. Add to that the warmongering rhetoric, our perceived proxy fighting through Israel, and the fact that we have 140,000 soldiers sitting in the middle of a virtual Shiite-Sunni civil war in Iraq, and it is not hyperbole to say that it would be miraculous if we did not become involved in expanded hostilities.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are now seeking full-on unrestrained war, to be fought more aggressively and less "delicately" than the prior and current wars. The neoconservatives are expressly saying so.
His point is that, in spite of our wish that Bush and Cheney surely see the folly of their path after the disaster of their Iraqi adventure, they show no signs of veering from their initial trajectory. They join the neoconservatives with the ridiculous notion that we need to crush the countries in the Middle East that are a problem – eg their thinly veilled support of Israel’s all out attack on Hezbollah or their support of John Bolton, outspoken proponent of war with Iran. They are unwavering in their attachment to a military solution in the region, and indifferent to the blaring fact that we’ve set off an insoluable Civil War in Iraq. It’s no question where they’re headed. The only question is whether there’s any way to stop them.
They’re so lost in their solution that they have no idea of the problem they’re creating. It boggles the mind how they can continue to ignore the reality that stands so clearly before them…
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