No Sympathy for the Neocons : Mick Jagger runs with the ’neocon’ meme

[NVMojo]

The news that the Rolling Stones are coming out with a song called "Sweet Neocon" that takes the administration to task for its Iraq war policy is ... music to my ears:

"You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you’re so wrong, my sweet neo-con."

Wrong? Neocons? They’ll never admit it, although the whole world knows it.

That’s a defining characteristic of these ex-lefties-turned-rightists - they’re so blinded by ideology and their own hubris that even the massive failure of their policies in practice leads not to reconsideration, but to a drunken triumphalism:

"What neoconservatives have long been advocating is now being articulated and practiced at the highest levels of government by a war cabinet composed of individuals who, coming from a very different place, have joined and reshaped the neoconservative camp and are carrying the neoconservative idea throughout the world. As a result, the vast right-wing conspiracy has grown even more vast than liberals could imagine. And even as the tent has enlarged, the great schisms and splits in conservative foreign policy - so widely predicted just a year ago, so eagerly sought and amplified by outside analysts - have not occurred. Indeed, differences have, if anything, narrowed.

more...

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7540

[NewJeffCT]

1. I'm surprised, but the Stones have gotten a lot of ink on this song

it has made a lot of the "mainstream" out there.

[malaise]

2. What's the name of the CD

I need to order a copy.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. CD - "A Bigger Bang" - to be released in a few weeks (I think)

http://www.rollingstones.com/home.php


:P

[malaise]

9. Thanks n/t

[Jamastiene]

3. I knew there was something that made me

always love the Stones so much. I hope they keep on rocking. Keep on keeping on...

[iamahaingttta]

4. I wouldn't be surprised...

...if it's actually more Keith than Mick.

"Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the uncounted heads
Let’s think of the wavering millions
Who need leaders but get gamblers instead

Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio"

Salt of the Earth - 1968

[Pathwalker]

5. Nope, it's Mick's song. Keith isn't happy about it,

or so he said on CNN Headline news. Keith said he didn't want to end up Dixie Chicked for a song.

[iamahaingttta]

8. Alrighty, then...

C'mon, Keith! Whaddya worried about?

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

7. Good article by

Raimondo.