Paul Roberts: A Shabby and Sinister Case for War

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts68.html


Among the willfully ignorant is neoconservative godfather Norman Podhoretz. He has just published a 30,000-word delusional screed in the September issue of Commentary, "WW IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win." (In the neocon lexicon, WW III was the Cold War.)

Podhoretz begins by alleging that "the malignant force of radical Islamism" has as its objective "to conquer our land" and to destroy "everything good for which America stands."

If Muslims intend to conquer America, then they are every bit as delusional as Podhoretz, who intends for America to conquer the Middle East.

But, of course, Muslims have no such objective. The objective of Muslim terrorists is to drive America out of Muslim homelands, not to conquer ours. Podhoretz’s intention to conquer the Middle East, however, is real. He has declared it before, as has Douglas Feith, currently Undersecretary of Defense in the Bush administration, who wrote in his "Strategy for Israel" in 1997 that the US and Israel should conquer Iraq, Syria, and Iran and that Israel should reoccupy "the areas under Palestinian Authority control."

Podhoretz wants you to believe that "the road we have taken since 9/11 is the only safe course for us to follow." Safe? This bloody and inhuman road leads on to American invasions of Iran, Syria, Lebanon and, if Podhoretz has his way, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Demurely, Podhoretz has kept Pakistan off his list, perhaps because Pakistan, like Israel, has nuclear weapons.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Podhoretz? Somehow the madness of 9/11 has given

a voice to these crazy people. We are all worse off because of it.