Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit

[BelgianMadCow]

Exclusive: The Ukraine crisis – in part stirred up by U.S. neocons – has damaged prospects for peace not only on Russia’s borders but in two Middle East hotspots, Syria and Iran, which may have been exactly the point, reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

You might think that policymakers with so many bloody fiascos on their résumés as the U.S. neocons, including the catastrophic Iraq War, would admit their incompetence and return home to sell insurance or maybe work in a fast-food restaurant. Anything but directing the geopolitical decisions of the world’s leading superpower.

But Official Washington’s neocons are nothing if not relentless and resilient. They are also well-funded and well-connected. So they won’t do the honorable thing and disappear. They keep hatching new schemes and strategies to keep the world stirred up and to keep their vision of world domination – and particularly “regime change” in the Middle East – alive.


Sen. John McCain appearing with Ukrainian rightists at a rally in Kiev.

Now, the neocons have stoked a confrontation over Ukraine, involving two nuclear-armed states, the United States and Russia. But – even if nuclear weapons don’t come into play – the neocons have succeeded in estranging U.S. President Barack Obama from Russian President Vladimir Putin and sabotaging the pair’s crucial cooperation on Iran and Syria, which may have been the point all along

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[pangaia]

1. What the hell is that emotionally disturbed

over-the-never-was-on-the-hill moron doing in Kiev?
Who does he think he is?
Obama should not permit him to travel anywhere representing the US.

Trappist BEER forever !!!

[truth2power]

2. BMC - thanks for posting this. If anyone bothers to read the article

they'll find that Parry lays out the closest thing to the truth on the unfolding events in Ukraine, that narrative, of course, being available just about everywhere on the internet except where "gatekeepers" are able to shout it down.

How droll! Here we are, the US Govt. trying to put the best face on their support for a bunch of neo-Nazis, while Joe Biden goes around the country talking about Putin's "dark path".

As Parry says: "Virtually across the board, from Fox News to MSNBC, from the Washington Post to the New York Times, the U.S. press corps fell in line, painting Yanukovych and Putin as the “black-hat” villains and the coup regime as the “white-hat” good guys, which required, of course, whiting out the neo-Nazi “brown shirts.”

But wait...look over there...Someone trapped in a bathroom in Sochi.

We really must demonize Putin, don'tcha know. Because if we don't, we might look even more closely at what's REALLY going on in Ukraine.


More from Parry:

In other words, Israel and its U.S. neocon supporters have been willing to collaborate with extreme right-wing and even anti-Semitic forces if that advances their key geopolitical goals, such as maneuvering the U.S. government into military confrontations with Syria and Iran.

snip...

Like other neocon-engineered schemes, there will surely be much collateral damage in this latest one. For instance, if the tit-for-tat economic retaliations escalate – and Russian gas supplies are disrupted – Europe’s fragile recovery could be tipped back into recession, with harmful consequences for the U.S. economy, too.

There’s also the certainty that congressional war hawks and neocon pundits will press for increased U.S. military spending and aggressive tactics elsewhere in the world to punish Putin, meaning even less money and attention for domestic programs or deficit reduction. Obama’s “nation-building at home” will be forgotten.

What I want to know is why these neocon malefactors are still lurking within our Government. Hmm.