Neocon ‘Chaos Promotion’ in the Mideast
Neocon Chaos Promotion in the Mideast
by
Ray McGovern
CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/14/neocon-chaos-promotion-mideast
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
were key architects of the Iraq War debacle under President George W. Bush. (Photo: file)
Former Washington insider and four-star General Wesley Clark spilled the beans several years ago on how Paul Wolfowitz and his neoconservative co-conspirators implemented their sweeping plan to destabilize key Middle Eastern countries once it became clear that post-Soviet Russia wont stop us.
As I recently reviewed a YouTube eight-minute clip of General Clarks October 2007 speech, what leaped out at me was that the neocons had been enabled by their assessment that after the collapse of the Soviet Union Russia had become neutralized and posed no deterrent to U.S. military action in the Middle East.
While Clarks public exposé largely escaped attention in the neocon-friendly mainstream media (surprise, surprise!), he recounted being told by a senior general at the Pentagon shortly after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 about the Donald Rumsfeld/Paul Wolfowitz-led
plan for regime change in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.
This was startling enough, I grant you, since officially the United States presents itself as a nation that respects international law, frowns upon other powerful nations overthrowing the governments of weaker states, and in the aftermath of World War II condemned past aggressions by Nazi Germany and decried Soviet subversion of pro-U.S. nations.
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