Neocons Are Spreading Their Tentacles in Britain Too

[kskiska]

LONDON, 28 October 2003 — Paul Wolfowitz, arguably the most wolfish of the right-wing pack around Bush Junior, this weekend found himself caught worryingly close to yet another violent attack in Iraq. Wolfowitz explained away this latest blast with typical neocon nonchalance — the attackers are losers and the victorious allies are morally superior beings who know what is best for the people they have “liberated”.

He is with Rumsfeld and Cheney and others who have an evangelical mission to make this century belong to America. Most of us around the world who are not US groupies dread and sometimes mock these avid American, Christian buccaneers with ambitions that take us back to the days of Spanish and English piracy, when officially blessed adventurers set off to butcher and loot the world.

They are a scary lot, US Democrats will tell you, as will the left in Britain. But are we, while keeping a wary eye on the Bush administration, failing to watch out for the neocons in our own country? It was the keenly attentive John Kampfner of the New Statesman who first asked this question. Observing the unpredictable alliances forming over support for the war, he warned that a new breed of Blairite militarists had emerged, “disdainful of their critics. They see the future as theirs”. I would add, they also see the world as theirs for the taking and remaking, which is why they want to hitch Britain’s future to whatever ruinous regime is pulling strings in the White House.

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[not_in_my_name]

1. Britain is gearing up to "welcome" Bush in November . . .

and I hope that the planned protests and demonstrations that are being organized over there are actually seen by Bush, but somehow I doubt it.

[La_Serpiente]

2. The Neo-Cons

at the AEI (American Enterprise Institute) recently went to Italy to meet with Bersculoni behind closed doors. There were many prominent ones - including Richard Perle.

I already sent e-mail to my friends in Italy warning them of what might happen. Bersculoni has the EU presidency this year AND there will be a Constitutional Convention as well. I told them to watch out for these people. I don't think the people in Italy knew they went since Bersculoni controls 90 percent of the TV media over there.

I am thinking that the Neo-Cons want to intervene on the Constitutional Proceedings and maybe change the laws in the EU since Bersculoni is the head of it.