Neocons let loose

[ProSense]

Neocons let loose

By Steve Benen

At a certain level, international diplomacy with Iran and a first-in-a-generation breakthrough constitute the worst possible scenario for U.S. neoconservatives. Their vision dictates that change can come to the Middle East, but only through military force – and the more diplomacy and the search for peaceful solutions makes force unlikely, the more it must be rejected...it’s understandable that neocons are even more agitated than usual this morning. With P5+1 – the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany – having reached a preliminary agreement with Iran, the entire neocon vision is facing a historic repudiation. Michael Tomasky noted this morning that among neocons, “there is contemplation of the hideous reality that Obama and the path of negotiation just might work. This is the thing the neocons can’t come to terms with at all. If Obama succeeds here, their entire worldview is discredited. Check that; even more discredited.”

David Corn flagged the perfect encapsulation of the far-right freakout.

Hours after the Obama administration announced an interim agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program, John Bolton, the hawk’s hawk of the neocon crowd (remember when he practically yearned for terrorists to blow up Chicago with a nuclear device to teach Barack Obama a lesson?), was busy penning a piece for The Weekly Standard decrying the deal as an “abject surrender” of President Obama to the mullahs of Iran. Bolton essentially makes the familiar (and hyperbolic) conservative case that any deal that does not start with Iran trashing all of its nuclear equipment is yet another Munich moment. From this perspective, there can be no bargaining with Tehran – that is, no diplomacy. <…>

Thus, his article ends with this assertion: “in truth, an Israeli military strike is the only way to avoid Tehran’s otherwise inevitable march to nuclear weapons.” Thank you, Ambassador, for such candor.

Indeed, there is some value in this. For every mainstream observer telling neocon, “You make it sound like you’re opposed to any solution that omits missile strikes,” it’s helpful to have prominent figures effectively concede, “Yep.”

But what continues to impress is the fact that neoconservatives continue to pretend they have credibility – and much of the political world just plays along. The New York Times report had a lengthy item on the preliminary deal with Iran today, which quoted some “experts.” The next paragraph quoted … wait for it … Elliott Abrams.

This keeps happening. Every time the Obama White House advances U.S. interests through diplomacy, the neocons howl, and their opinions are not immediately subjected to ridicule.

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/neocons-let-loose

[rdharma]

1. Bad neocon! No Armageddon for you!

Variation of "Bad cop...... no donut!"

[Berlum]

2. Republicon strategery: sell more Hawk missiles to Iran so they can aim at US soldiers

That's exactly what the Republicons did with Iran: they armed them with missiles to shoot at our sons and daughters in uniform.

And now they are whining about effective diplomacy. I guess they want to sell more weapons to Iran and the Ayatollahs. Sick, sick sick.

Republicon demigod Oliver North R) and his war-profiteering Republicon cronies lied to and betrayed America by making sure the "Axis of Evil" Iranians had weapons to shoot at US troops.



http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/19/world/iran-contra-report-arms-hostages-contras-secret-foreign-policy-unraveled.html
What is honey for the bee is honey for th

[karynnj]

3. Even before this neo con McCain said John Kerry was a wrecking ball.

I guess it is true that he may be Obama's wrecking ball destroying neo con dreams.

Seeing this, I remember when the Boston Globe printed Elliot Abrahm's comments on a Kerry foreign policy position when was a Senator, his Chief of Staff wrote a LTE that pointed out that Abrahms had Iran/Contra legal troubles after he lied to Kerry's committee. I really think that any comment by ANY of the indicted Iran/Contra people should have to note that past history.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

[Gothmog]

5. John Bolton is a joke

Why would anyone listen to this idiot?