{"id":287630,"date":"2016-12-29T01:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-sour-holiday-season-for-neocons\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T01:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:13:58","slug":"a-sour-holiday-season-for-neocons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-sour-holiday-season-for-neocons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sour Holiday Season for Neocons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0For the past couple of decades, the neocons have ruled the roost of American foreign policy, but they have now suffered some stunning reversals that have left them fuming, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s extended Christmas holiday season, stretching through much of November and all of December, has not been a happy time for Official Washington\u2019s dominant neoconservatives and their liberal-interventionist sidekicks.<\/p>\n<p>First, they had to lick their wounds over the defeat of <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/04\/16\/yes-hillary-clinton-is-a-neocon\/\">their preferred U.S. presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton<\/a>; then they had to watch as their <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/09\/13\/al-qaedas-ties-to-us-backed-syrian-rebels\/\">\u201cmoderate\u201d Syrian rebel proxies and <em>their<\/em> Al Qaeda allies<\/a> were routed from east Aleppo; and finally they watched in disbelief as the Obama administration permitted passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel\u2019s illegal settlements on Palestinian lands.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20482\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-300x200.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20482\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20482\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-1028x685.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/25681712640_b039ab7e67_k-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking with supporters at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, March 21, 2016. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To say that the neocons and liberal hawks have not taken these reversals well would be an understatement. They have pretty much blamed Clinton\u2019s defeat on everyone but themselves and Clinton herself. They have been apoplectic over Aleppo and their lost dream of \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria. And they have sputtered in outrage over President Obama\u2019s failure to veto the Israeli anti-settlement resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Clinton\u2019s defeat, her embrace of the neocon\/liberal-hawk \u201cregime change\u201d obsessions siphoned off enthusiasm among the peace faction of the Democratic Party, a significant and activist part of the progressive movement.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s alignment with the neocon\/liberal hawks may have helped her with the mainstream media, but the MSM has lost much of its credibility by making itself a handmaiden in leading the nation to wars and more wars.<\/p>\n<p>Average Americans also could feel the contempt that these elites had for the rest of us. The neocons and liberal hawks had come to believe in the <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/12\/28\/the-victory-of-perception-management\/\">CIA\u2019s concept of \u201cperception management,\u201d<\/a> feeling that the American people were items to be controlled, not the nation\u2019s sovereigns&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/12\/27\/a-sour-holiday-season-for-neocons\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive:\u00a0For the past couple of decades, the neocons have ruled the roost of American foreign policy, but they have now suffered some stunning reversals that have left them fuming, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry America\u2019s extended Christmas holiday season, stretching through much of November and all of December, has not been a happy time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}