Republicans go to war..... with each other..... NEOCON vs. PALEOCON

[ShaneGR]

From the article "Rumble on the Right" in this months Vanity Fair. The Paleoconservatives vs. the Neocons. I don't have a link but I am entering these quotes as it appears.....

Bush speechwriter David Frum, famous for writing the "axis of evil" Bush tagline:

There is... a fringe attached to the conservative world that cannot overcome its despair and alienation. The resentments are too intense, the bitterness too unappeasable. Only the boldest of them as yet explicity acknowledge their wish to see the United States defeated in the war on terror. But they are thinking about defeat, and wishing for it, and they will take pleasure in it if it should happen.

They began by hating the neoconservatives. They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.

War is a great clarifier. It forces people to take sides. The paleoconservatives have chosen - and the rest of us must choose too. In a time of danger, they have turned their back on their country. Now we turn our backs on them.

Wow Dave, tell us what you really think! Nothing like calling your party-members traitors to their nation.

And just for fun, lets read Paleoconservative Pat Buchanon's response:

With Iraq turning into the Mesopotamian morass some of us warned it would become, the neo-Jacobins have decided they are not going to be the ones to ride the tumbrels. In times like these, character comes through. By turning on the men they persuaded to go to war, by fabricating alibis and inventing excuses to absolve themselves of culpability for what they labored to create, they have revealed themselves for what they are:hustlers and opportunists devoid of principle, driven by ideology of power and a passionate attachment to a nation not their own.

The old right curmudgeons who warned us against giving these vagabonds food, shelter and a warm place by the fire were right. We should have put them back on the street...

With the sitaution in Iraq deteriorating, the neocon agenda is to widen the war into Syria, Iran and perhaps Saudi Arabia, and convert it into "World-War IV," the war of their dreams, a war of civilizations, an Armageddon, with America and Israel on one side and Islam on the other.





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