The neocons are renowned for their courage on the battlefield. There is no
keyboard they are afraid to finger. No pen they won’t commandeer. When the battle
cry is sounded, they unhesitatingly push the “on” button at their computers
and saddle up for battle. Off with the loafers and under the desk! “Caution
to the wind! Bring in a wine spritzer, dammit, I’m off to waaar!”
While this Institute and this column most definitely do not take a position
on any candidate and in fact your correspondent views voting itself with disdain
in today’s corrupt US political system, it is impossible to avoid viewing with
extreme amusement the collective neocon hysterical breakdown over the possibility
that voters of the Republican Party – a party neocons crashed en masse
starting in 1972 and especially 1976 – may be sending as their nominee for
president a man who has committed the cardinal sins of:
1) Stating the obvious that the Iraq war was
brought to us by the liars of the neoconservative movement and has been a total
disaster for the rest of us who are forced to pay for their fantasies of world
domination.
2) Suggesting that he might actually speak with
Russian President Vladimir Putin to see if US/Russia differences can be worked
out without a potentially world-ending nuclear war.
3) Though arguing that he is hugely pro-Israel,
nevertheless suggesting that if the US is to play a role in the Israel/Palestine
issue (this Institute would argue that it should not), the US side should, in
the interests of any chance of success, take a neutral role in the process.