Neoconservatism Is Dead

by Brent Budowsky

Charles Krauthammer, not content with having been proven deadly wrong
in his world view of many years, learning nothing from the bloody
disasters of the policies he so aggressively promoted, now attacks
Barack Obama for suggesting America should talk with enemies as well
as friends.

Our first and last neoconservative President, George W. Bush, is the
lead witness for the prosecution in the case whose verdict is the
death of neoconservatism.

Never has any philosophy been proven so wrong, so fatal, so disastrous
for our country and so deadly for our troops as the views expounded by
neoconservative theoreticians.

Their ascent to power meant tragedy, failure and death. Their
arrogance and their imperial grandeur has alienated what Jefferson
called the decent opinion of mankind. Their tactics have been pursued
with contempt for alternate views, corruption of our democratic
system, and condescension towards those who know far more about
military affairs than they do.

In fact, one of the great specialties of the neoconservative movement
is that so many who so ostentatiously failed to serve in the military,
when their time came, so sneeringly question the patriotism of others,
including those awarded medals for valor in combat.

When Ronald Reagan was changing the world with Mikhail Gorbachev,
there were the neoconservatives, uttering their sneering contempt for
Reagan, comparing his talks with Gorbachev to Pearl Harbor, comparing
his diplomacy to Neville Chamberlain.

George Bush, *** Cheney, and their fellow neoconservatives know
better than Reagan about negotiating with enemies. They know better
than Eisenhower about military industrial complexes. They know better
than Ford about seeking diplomatic agreements to control the spread of
weapons of mass destruction. They know better than Nixon about
achieving breakthroughs with our major adversaries.

They are very good about hurling insults to attack their domestic
enemies and very bad about supporting wounded troops, disabled
veterans and homeless heroes.

Neoconservatives are very special people, in their own eyes. When
things go wrong they become the party of perjury and pardons, the
party of abuse of power and abuse of executive privilege to cover up
their failures and crimes.

Neoconservatives champion the politics of fear, desperately seeking to
frighten the people to justify their attacks on freedoms guaranteed by
statute and constitution.

Neoconservatives embody the politics of profiteering, masterminding
and organizing the most corrupt occupation in world history, staffed
by ideological partisans, rewarding their campaign contributors,
mismanaging tens of billions of lost and stolen dollars, under the
imperial arrogance of a proconsul awarded the Presidential Medal Of
Freedom.

Neoconservatives know better than generals, with their contempt for
the Geneva Convention and their actions that civilized people call
torture.

Our neoconservative theoreticians believe that George Washington was
wrong and George Bush is right. Even torture is done with the big lie
that they are promoting freedom and democracy with their corrupt
occupation, their war against the Geneva Convention, and their shadow
CIA created in the bowels of Rumsfeld's neoconservative Department of
Defense.

And then they try to keep their secrets.

And then they lie about what they do.

And then they bear false witness to Congress.

And then they claim that criminal acts are protected by privilege.

And then they complain when confronted by the law.

And then they whine when juries convict their leaders of perjury and
demand the first of many presidential pardons.

And then they escalate their catastrophic war over the objection of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

And now they want to continue this war in perpetuity and dump this
disaster on the desk of the successor, to the man who calls himself
the decider.

And there they are, again, today, on the oped pages of the newspapers,
in their discredited think tanks, on their hate ridden right wing
radio, before the smirking courtiers of the cable networks, still
claiming they are right and their deadly blunders must be escalated
again, and again.

Neoconservatism is dumb, discredited, and dead.

While they cover up their dirty laundry, and plan their next wars, and
hire their criminal attorneys, and lobby for their pardons, the clock
is ticking, the day is coming, when a a grateful nation will celebrate
their removal from the high councils of government, once and for all.
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