Neo-cons have hijacked US foreign policy

Boston Globe | 9/10/2003 | Robert Kuttner,

[Jmouse007]

"Neo-cons have hijacked US foreign policy"

Translation: ROBERT KUTTNER believes,

"IT'S ALL THE JOOSE FAULT"

[OkiMusashi]

ROTFLMAO

You know ... I hadn't thought of that. Kinda puts his "judgement" in the proper perspective.

[zacyak]

Translation: ROBERT KUTTNER believes, "IT'S ALL THE JOOSE FAULT"

Robert Kuttner is himself jewish, I doubt that he believes that it's "all the Jews fault".

[A. Pole]

How many more 9/11s are you willing to have the US absorb?

You might find it callous but a strong big nation should be able to absorb occasional terrorist attack without giving up its freedoms or being drawn into expensive and unfocused foreign adventures. I do not think that we need Patriot act I and II or war in Iraq. I shudder to think what will follow another WTC like event.

To put things in perspective, every years 500 000 of Americans die out of cancer. Such death often is much worse than from the bomb. A fraction of $87 billions spent on cancer research would do more good.

[Unam Sanctam]

You seem to say that our "neocon" policy is essentially about gaining power and "might makes right". This is a vile slander. We are using our power to do good and restrain evil in the world. Whatever it is, it is not "might makes right". Saddam Hussein is the mass murdering bully, not George Bush.

[ex-snook]

Seems like no one wants to jump up and claim credit for this 'great victory' for world dominance.

[A. Pole]

Rubin evidently thinks Chirac was acting in good faith, rather than to protect France's $50 billion worth of contracts with the Saddam regime, and to do whatever he could to undercut the American role in world affairs.

It would be better to give Iraq with this $50 billion to the French and not to have to spend $87 billion every few months. Let them have it.

[A. Pole]

Translation: ROBERT KUTTNER believes,

"IT'S ALL THE JOOSE FAULT"

Rober Kuttner is a "JOO"! And he sees himself as such quite strongly.

[quidnunc]

A. Pole wrote: You might find it callous but a strong big nation should be able to absorb occasional terrorist attack without giving up its freedoms or being drawn into expensive and unfocused foreign adventures. I do not think that we need Patriot act I and II or war in Iraq. I shudder to think what will follow another WTC like event. To put things in perspective, every years 500 000 of Americans die out of cancer. Such death often is much worse than from the bomb. A fraction of $87 billions spent on cancer research would do more good.

This has to be one of the most empty-headed things ever uttered here on Free Republic.

You sir or madam (as the case may be) are a complete and utter lackwit.

[The Electrician]

Are you denying that the term "neocon" has become practically synonymous with "the Jews"? Or that the name "Wolfowitz" is commonly used as a euphemsim by anti-Semites when they want to disguise their anti-Semitism?

There are plenty of leftist Jews who believe that Jews who express conservative views are "Nazis", just as there are many leftist blacks who label conservative blacks as "uncle Toms".

It's clear that Kuttner and Rubin are knowingly doing exactly the same thing.

[Theyknow]

"Nobody has really ever seen one. They exist in theory only. However, when the day comes that we occupy Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and North Korea it'll be safe to call the President and the Administration "Neo-Cons" ..... because everybody else will. "

Your ignorance on this issue is showing. Please research before you make such foolish statements. Those who believe in the “Doctrine of Preemption” are a well-published lot and there names are known to the well read. Learn something about the issue then ridicule, not the other way around.

[quidnunc]

A. Pole wrote: Rober Kuttner is a "JOO"! And he sees himself as such quite strongly.

Noam Chomsky is a Jew too, so what's your point?

[A. Pole]

You seem to say that our "neocon" policy is essentially about gaining power and "might makes right". This is a vile slander. We are using our power to do good and restrain evil in the world.

The key neocons are misguided cult like devotees of Strauss similar to the followers of Ayn Rand.

Strauss was so traumatised by the failure of Weimar Republic that he developed an idea that American Republic will collapse unless discreetly guided by the elite of the "super-clever" university intellectuals and armchair warriors.

[A. Pole]

Noam Chomsky is a Jew too, so what's your point?

My point is that when Chomsky or Kuttner criticize neocons they do not do it because some neocons might be Jews. Red Herring - does it ring a bell?

[montag813]

If NeoCons have hijacked foreign policy...why are we demanding a terrorist state inside Israel, and why are we going to disgracefully abstain on the Security Council vote regarding Arafat? I am so sick of this self-hating Jew Kuttner.

[PokeyJoe]

reality check kojack.

I'm talking about the TERM being hijacked by the left and being applied in a sinister fashion.

I'm not debating "it" - as I happen to be an early adopter.

If anything is/was "neo" - it was the Clintonistas selling of American national interests to internaitonalist concerns (Clinton was (and Hillary is) willing to sacrifice American soverignty for Kyoto, the wot WCC, and the WTO).

Maybe you can get a clue by reading a book by Henry Kissinger "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy" published in the mid-1950s. It's straight Wolfowitz - and good reading to boot.

[MEG33]

The Strauss thing is a ridiculous stretch and has been discounted.

[lodwick]

Amen.

[zacyak]

Are you denying that the term "neocon" has become practically synonymous with "the Jews"?

I've always understood the term to mean "Reagan democrats" who abandoned the party due to Jimmy Carter's idiocy and moved over to the Republicans. There may be some prominent Jews within the bunch, but the majority of them are not. Pundits like Tim Russert and Chris Matthews use the term freely, something they wouldn't do if the term was considered a pejorative code word for jewish republicans.

[A. Pole]

I am so sick of this self-hating Jew Kuttner.

Mr. Kuttner is proud to be a Jew and he does not have any "self-hatred". Do not be quick with passing false accusations.