"the nation's wisemen,..." Where have they gone?

[rodeodance]

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Arianna Huffington: Where Have All the Architects of War Gone?

Arianna Huffington Tue Jul 18, 5:25 PM ET

In his terrific post on the hornets' nest we've kicked open in the Middle East, Gary Hart makes the point that as the fighting spreads, we have seen precious little of "the nation's wisemen, those neoconservative idealists who saw the great American empire imposing democracy on the Middle East at the point of a bayonet."

And, indeed, in the wall-to-wall coverage of the latest Middle East carnage -- and the analysis of said carnage -- the neocon architects who brought us the invasion of Iraq and the promise that it would bring democracy and stability to the region have been notably absent from the discussion.

Where have you gone Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, et al? A nation turns it anxious eyes to you.

In the run up to Shock and Awe, these guys were all over the place, singing from the same song book, letting us know that the fall of Saddam would bring good things throughout the Middle East. With their every pronouncement, you could hear the sound of Arab dominoes falling.

The neocon fantasy was summed up by Dick Cheney, a charter member of the Project for a New American Century brigade, in August 2002: "Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region: extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of jihad, moderates throughout the region would take heart, and our ability to advance the Israel/Palestinian peace process would be enhanced."

[Warpy]

1. Hey, they're BUSY

They're trying to steal what they can while they hammer together some sort of lame justification for getting this country into a war that favored Israel, not the US, and making it sound less like treason than it is.

If ever there needed to be big show trials in this country, this is the time.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. They open Pandora Box

All those monies not much use.
Reality is a bitch.

[SharonAnn]

3. Well, I saw Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brezinski on TV last night.

I think it was on the Jim Lehrer hour on PBS.

Couldn't believe that we can't do any better than "old guards" or "neo-cons".