If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the U.S. military will take out Syria\u2019s secular government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over), and the U.S. Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but follow that with a massive increase in military spending.<\/p>\n
Like spraying lighter fluid on a roaring barbecue, the neocons also want a military escalation in Ukraine to burn the ethnic Russians out of the east and the neocons dream of spreading the blaze to Moscow with the goal of forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin. In other words, more and more fires of Imperial \u201cregime change\u201d\u00a0abroad even as the last embers of the American Republic die at home.<\/p>\n
Much of this \u201cstrategy\u201d is personified by a single Washington power couple: arch-neocon Robert Kagan, a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and an early advocate of the Iraq War, and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who engineered last year\u2019s coup in Ukraine that started a nasty civil war and created a confrontation between nuclear-armed United States and Russia.<\/p>\n
Kagan, who cut his teeth as a propaganda specialist in support of the Reagan administration\u2019s brutal Central American policies in the 1980s, is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post\u2019s neocon-dominated opinion pages.<\/p>\n