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If this is what they do, then he wants to be a neocon, too
Star Newspapers (Chicago south suburbs) ^ | Sunday, May 4, 2003 | Michael J. Bowers Star columnist

Posted on 05/04/2003 8:01:34 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

The late comedian Jim Samuels once said, "The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody, and still nobody likes him."

I started reading the newspaper during the Munich Olympics. Since then, this is what I see when America goes out into the world: No matter how much cocaine we give away, we are weak, we are humiliated, and we are despised.

In Paris on Jan. 23, 1973, we surrendered the Vietnam War even though we had never lost on the battlefield. Mostly we were defeated by our own reporters — the "nattering nabobs of negativism," as they were aptly labeled by Vice President Spiro Agnew in September 1970.

On Nov. 4, 1979, nutcase Iranians seized 60 members of our Tehran embassy staff and held them for more than a year. On April 11, 1980, the feeble President Carter finally worked up the courage for a rescue mission. It failed, killing eight of our servicemen. The Iranians reveled gleefully at our impotence.

On Oct. 23, 1983, Hezbollah blew up 241 of our peacekeeper Marines as they slept in their barracks in Beirut. Soon thereafter, President Reagan pulled us out of Lebanon.

In the Clinton era, the president allowed the Chinese to steal the secrets to our neutron bomb while he played doctor with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office.

Then came 9-11. The attack was bad enough. Worse were the politicians and "intellectuals" — George Galloway, Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag, to name three — who saw this as our comeuppance. Too bad about the dead people, they said. But America had it coming.

Not only I saw America as spineless. So did our enemies. Osama bin-Laden watched our response to terror in the 1980s and '90s and decided we were a "weak horse." Then he plotted 9-11.

Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down," says our withdrawal from Somalia in October 1993 taught the world's thugs that "killing a few American soldiers, even at a cost of more than 500 of your own fighters, is enough to spook Uncle Sam."

But now, with the successful invasion of Iraq, President Bush has destroyed the pattern. Now when the bully attacks, America hits back. And so the next time some thug gets the idea to kill a few of us, he's going to think twice, wondering what ever did happen to Saddam anyway.

In short, we are no longer a nation of cowards. This gives me immense satisfaction.

Sounds simple enough, right? Well, a lot of people out there think I don't know what I believe. I'm really just a dupe of the cabal of suspicious Jewish neoconservatives who have taken over Bush's empty head.

The crackpot theory goes like this: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice — they don't run our foreign policy. The neocons do. And they run it for the benefit of Israel. The fall of the Twin Towers was their lucky break: their chance to commence the conquest of the entire Middle East.

Who are these men? The conspiracy theorists have ferreted out the names: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Eliot Abrams, David Wurmser, among others.

Fortunately, a few alert people in the world are wise to the cabal:

Two months after 9-11, the French ambassador to London, Daniel Bernard, blamed the scary state of the world on the "(expletive) little country" of Israel. "Why should we be in danger of World War III because of these people?" he complained.

This year National Public Radio asked a New York City councilman, Robert Jackson, why an anti-war resolution had stalled in the city council. He replied: "New York City is the home away from home for most Jews, and (the resolution) is not in the best interest of Israel."

Warming the heart of Pat Buchanan, newsman Tim Russert asked Mr. Perle on network TV: "Can you assure American viewers … that we're in this situation against Saddam Hussein and his removal for American security interests? And what would be the link in terms of Israel?"

A sign at an anti-war rally in March in San Francisco read: "I want YOU to die for Israel. Israel sings, 'Onward, Christian Soldiers.' "

In the same month, the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, told fellow French politicians, "The hawks in the U.S. administration are in the hands of (Ariel) Sharon."

U.S. Rep. James Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, recently complained: "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this."

Let me explain something to the Morans (and morons) of the world. There is a reason America and Israel are on the same side. It's not that hard to figure out. The same people who hate Israel also hate America. And the same people who hate America also hate Israel.

Who do they hate us? Because we are successful and they are not. It's simply the most powerful of all human emotions at work: resentment.

What is the proper response to this hatred? It is to do what the neocons have advised for years: Stay strong. Hit back. Stop apologizing for being free and successful.

Thus, rather than resent the neocons, I am indebted to them. They have done a wonderful service to the country. I say, "Great work, guys!"

In fact, I want to do more than congratulate these men — I want to join them. Seriously. I want to be a Jewish neocon too. Why would I not?

Carter had his chance, and he gave us 444 days of abject humiliation.

Clinton had his chance, and he left us a legacy of disgusting, sleazy sex.

Now the neocons have had their chance. And in just 575 days — the period from 9-11 to the fall of Saddam's statue on April 9 — they have made us strong and proud again.

This is why I want to join the cabal. There is a hitch, though. I cannot pass the faith test. So as soon as I am done here, I will write to Mr. Perle. I'm hoping there are membership provisions for people of varying religious status.

I would be a lapsed-Catholic neocon.

Michael Bowers is a member of The Star's universal copy desk. He can be reached via e-mail at mbowers@starnewspapers.com.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: iraqifreedom; neocons; newnwo
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To: widowithfoursons
BTW, how many of you guys have actually been to Israel?
21 posted on 05/04/2003 9:07:29 AM PDT by widowithfoursons
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
"Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud." "

This is an obvious reference to the Nazi slogan, "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" Buchanan is truly evil.

His ideas are as loathsome as the notion that used to be bruited abroad about Roman Catholics; that they were disloyal to the U.S. and took their orders from the Vatican.

One would have imagined that given his people had been subjected to the very same prejudice Buchanan would have been stopped in his tracks. But no, he's way too wicked for that.

22 posted on 05/04/2003 9:15:48 AM PDT by Chipata
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To: Chancellor Palpatine; Luis Gonzalez
Ha! I was just getting ready to ping you!
23 posted on 05/04/2003 9:18:53 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Alouette
Oookay, just read more than I want to know about Wilhelm.
24 posted on 05/04/2003 9:21:58 AM PDT by widowithfoursons
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To: Chi-townChief
The biggest problem with this article is that it projects Reagan as some kind of weak president, when in fact Reagan restored the US into the strongest nation on earth. Certainly Bush has re-established this after 8-years of Clinton, but to paint Reagan with the same brush as Carter is ridiculous.
25 posted on 05/04/2003 9:22:40 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: general_re
"The first printed use of the term "anti-Semite" or "anti-semitic" was in the Athenæum of London, in 1881, according to the OED."

The first printed use in *English*. Alouette is quite right, as usual, the term was coined by the noted German Jew hater, Willhelm Marr.

From the Simon Wiesenthal Center:

MARR, Wilhelm: German anti-Semite. He brought racist ideas to a wide audience, introducing the word "anti-Semite" into the political vocabulary, by founding the "League of Anti-Semites." The "League" failed as an organization, but was historically important, being the first to create a popular political movement based on anti-Semitism.

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t049/t04906.html


26 posted on 05/04/2003 9:23:18 AM PDT by Chipata
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To: Chi-townChief
What's with all the neocon threads and articles all of a sudden?
27 posted on 05/04/2003 9:24:20 AM PDT by Cacique
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To: MEG33
I've been trying to join but I seem to be as left out as Bush,Cheney,Rice,Rumsfield and Powell.I want a decoder ring!

My sympathies. I never get to be part of the cool conspiracies either. :^(

28 posted on 05/04/2003 9:25:32 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somebody should have labeled the future "Some assembly required.")
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To: Chipata
Indeed - I was just trading freepmails with someone who reports that the 1966 printed edition of the OED traces the usage to the aforementioned Mr. Marr. Presumably, sometime between now and then, the online edition - the edition I was referring to - has begun reporting the earliest known usage in English. So, there you go :^)
29 posted on 05/04/2003 9:26:42 AM PDT by general_re (Ask me about my vow of silence!)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
1991: "I think God made all people good. But if we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, which group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"

Pat Buchanan said this? And you see this as a problem? You must be some kind of weirdo Palpatine.....

30 posted on 05/04/2003 9:32:18 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (i)
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To: general_re
Okay, okay - it was the 1966 Encyclopedia Britannica. Happy now? Sheesh ;)
31 posted on 05/04/2003 9:36:21 AM PDT by general_re (Ask me about my vow of silence!)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Give me a third world guy with a work ethic and an ability to haggle, and he'll be a good American. You can keep a socialist member of the white mobocracy with a sense of entitlement in England or France - I don't want him.
32 posted on 05/04/2003 9:38:17 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (if it has walked, talked and quacked like a duck for 25 years, it is a duck)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
That is an incredible collection of quotes and unmistakable in their animus.PJB and his cohorts are loons.Gee, it's nice when a side benefit to this War has been the complete discrediting of his tattered reputation, and hopefully all who defiantly seek solace under his umbrella.Thanks!
33 posted on 05/04/2003 9:38:59 AM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
LOL! You work for the UN right?
34 posted on 05/04/2003 9:41:02 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (i)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
"Pat Buchanan said this? And you see this as a problem? You must be some kind of weirdo Palpatine"

But no one will ever be able to call *him* a racist or Jew hater like certain other posters who infest FreeRepublic.
35 posted on 05/04/2003 9:45:46 AM PDT by Chipata
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
LOL. Quite a Buchanan dossier you keep. Truth is an absolute defense - so which is not true?.

Moment of truth arriving on Bush's American interest two-state, two year Israel/Palestine peace plan. Which 'neo-cons' (Christian or Jewish) will support Bush and which will support Sharon?

Pat calls himself and his magazine an "America Conservative".

The Buchanan-cons = America first, constitution loving, abortion hating patriots. Neo-cons = liberal, world controlling, 'war everywhere' chickenhawks.

36 posted on 05/04/2003 9:46:34 AM PDT by ex-snook (American jobs need balanced trade - WE BUY FROM YOU, YOU BUY FROM US)
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To: general_re
"Presumably, sometime between now and then, the online edition - the edition I was referring to - has begun reporting the earliest known usage in English. So, there you go :^)"

I have the complete OED in book form (you should see the size of it!) and on CD-Rom and it does the very same thing.

37 posted on 05/04/2003 9:47:56 AM PDT by Chipata
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Third world guys don't expect perks, paid vacations, pensions or high pay. They come in, do their job, and leave at the end of the day.

Your beloved white mobocrats are always busy organizing on you, lobbying for higher pay or more benefits, and doing it all while they're on your dime.

38 posted on 05/04/2003 9:48:04 AM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine (if it has walked, talked and quacked like a duck for 25 years, it is a duck)
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To: general_re
Shouldn't it be "anti-Levite"?
39 posted on 05/04/2003 9:48:34 AM PDT by MHT
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To: ex-snook
"Moment of truth arriving on Bush's American interest two-state, two year Israel/Palestine peace plan. Which 'neo-cons' (Christian or Jewish) will support Bush and which will support Sharon?"

What warped logic. If a person doesn't support Bush on the ridiculous "road map" it makes one a traitor?

40 posted on 05/04/2003 9:49:50 AM PDT by Chipata
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