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‘Moderate Mitt’: Neocon Trojan Horse
from Consortium News:
Moderate Mitt: Neocon Trojan Horse
October 24, 2012
Exclusive: Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney did all he could in Mondays debate to calm voters fears that he would revert to George W. Bushs neocon foreign policy. But there was one telling slip-up when Romney signaled that his heart remains with the neocon plan to remake the Middle East, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
Mitt Romneys peculiar sense of geography thinking Iran was some landlocked country that needed Syria as a route to the sea may have raised some eyebrows over Romneys lack of basic knowledge, but another part of the same answer, referring to the civil war in Syria as an opportunity, should have raised more alarm.
Though Romneys goal in Mondays foreign policy debate was to downplay his warlike neoconservative stands, his reference to the Syrian chaos as an opportunity suggests that his more moderate rhetoric is just another ploy to deceive voters and win the election, not a real abandonment of neocon strategies.
In that sense, the new moderate Mitt is less a sign of a neocon retreat from his earlier bellicosity than a Trojan Horse to be wheeled onto the White House grounds on Jan. 20, 2013, so the neocons can pour forth from its hollowed-out belly and regain full control of U.S. foreign policy.
So, the neocons dont really mind that Romney has suddenly abandoned many of their cherished positions, such as extending the Afghan War beyond 2014 and returning U.S. troops to Iraq. The neocons understand the political need for Romney to calm independent voters who fear that he may be another George W. Bush. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2012/10/24/moderate-mitt-neocon-trojan-horse/
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‘Moderate Mitt’: Neocon Trojan Horse (Original Post)
marmar
Oct 2012
OP
What a consumate lying POS. What a different world we would have if Al Gore had made it.
xtraxritical
Oct 2012
#4
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,868 posts)1. Yep we've heard it all before.
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xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)4. What a consumate lying POS. What a different world we would have if Al Gore had made it.
Too sad.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)7. Incredible where we went during his term... smh... nt
grasswire
(50,130 posts)2. compassionate conservatism
and the same crowd to force it down our throats.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. K&R
jsr
(7,712 posts)5. It's the same old crap
the neocons dont really mind that Romney has suddenly abandoned many of their cherished positions, such as extending the Afghan War beyond 2014 and returning U.S. troops to Iraq.