An Insider's Guide to the Neo-Con World

[Starfury]

This blog (Melinda Pillsbury-Foster) is a bit off the track from my usual reading list. She's a rabid libertarian with all the baggage that entails, but she also despises the neo-cons and has some excellent insights into how they think and operate. Sometimes I feel we overlook these details and underestimate their cunning in our zeal to bash them.

This snippet is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek bit of advice to mid-level neo-cons in the bush administration who might be getting a bit nervous since some of their peers (Libby, etc.) have been thrown to the wolves when they became inconvenient. I recommend reading the whole article, the snippet really doesn't do it justice.

An Insider's Guide to the NeoCon World: Get ready to meet the wolves of fate

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The conferences the Bush Administration held before this administration was assembled were different than any administration in the past. Real NeoCon Insiders, such as John Fund, provided the names for appointments, such as your own. They had unusual criteria for their suggestions, criteria that included if you could arguably be spun as incompetent when the time came for you to go off the back of the Sleigh. They knew the G. Gordons were thin upon the ground. You can think of it as an appointment but the reality is very much like being the guest of honor at a cannibalistic barbecue. In ancient times they always ensured the guest of honor for the ceremony was well fed. Easy to see why.

The NeoCon Cabal was not focused on the ordinary goal of an incoming administration. Their agenda was more personal. They were looking to reformat for the purposes of efficient thievery while placing patsies to take the blame. This is like laying land mines in the bureaucratic morass to prevent them ever reaching someone important. You were nominated as a land mine; notice the land mine never survives.

That was in accordance with the traditional tactical plans of Rove, Cheney, et al. It was necessary to lay down in advance the cover that would cut off possible prosecution and blame for the train of disasters that, if examined, would be revealed to be clever transfers of wealth taking place right out in open under the coloration of administrative business and policy.

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Perhaps you are there to still the voices that would otherwise be raised in alarm. If you got that appointment and are not primarily intended as a Land Mine you are probably Hostage of Affinity. By that I mean that you were placed because you have lots of friends outside the administration in a group, such as the Evangelical Bemused or in such ideological groups as conservative and libertarian.

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http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2006/03/insiders-guide-to-neocon-world-get.html#links

[CJCRANE]

1. Good insight

I like this line: "NeoCons are not Conservatives, Republicans, or Americans.They are opportunists working on the build out of the perpetual ATM machine from our pockets to theirs".

[Starfury]

2. That sums it up in a nutshell, IMO

There are many folks allied together that are perpetrating these crimes, each with their own agenda, each believing they're in control.

Some are ideologues who believe they're democratizing the Middle East for long-term security.
Some are religious zealots who believe they're creating a religious haven in America.
Some are political conservatives who believe they are can turn back the clock.

But really, all of them are just Hostages to Affinity. It's business that's in control, as it has been for longer than we'd like to think.

The real Plan is simply to transfer vast sums of money from our pockets into theirs. Like they say in detective stories, just follow the money, and it's no coincidence that this NeoCon Cabal is operating at the exact moment that global corporations are coming into their transnational power. Oil is a perfect catalyst since it's a global commodity with both increasing demand and scarcity. Can't beat that, but if it wasn't oil, it'd just be something else.

This transfer of wealth is not a conspiracy so much as it's just business in it's purest form. They've externalized their costs to the nth degree by using public money to finance their private profit and then sticking the public with the cleanup bill. And unless we change things radically, this won't be a one-time deal. It will be a perpetual stream of revenue and resources, the lifeblood of our nation, flowing into their coffers. We get all the costs, they get all the profit.

It's the ultimate triumph of pure capitalism, and it has no respect for national borders.