The End of Conservatives - Paul Craig Roberts

[pberq]

Prominent Republican Paul Craig Roberts givew a reality-based analysis of the current "conservative" movement.

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20050120&fname=usconservatives&sid=1&pn=1

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I remember when friends would excitedly telephone to report that Rush Limbaugh or G. Gordon Liddy had just read one of my syndicated columns over the air. That was before I became a critic of the US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration, and the neoconservative ideologues who have seized control of the US government.

America has blundered into a needless and dangerous war, and fully half of the country's population is enthusiastic. Many Christians think that war in the Middle East signals "end times" and that they are about to be wafted up to heaven. Many patriots think that, finally, America is standing up for itself and demonstrating its righteous might. Conservatives are taking out their Vietnam frustrations on Iraqis. Karl Rove is wrapping Bush in the protective cloak of war leader. The military-industrial complex is drooling over the profits of war. And neoconservatives are laying the groundwork for Israeli territorial expansion.

The evening before Thanksgiving Rush Limbaugh was on C-Span TV explaining that these glorious developments would have been impossible if talk radio and the conservative movement had not combined to break the power of the liberal media.

In the Thanksgiving issue of National Review, editor Richard Lowry and former editor John O'Sullivan celebrate Bush's reelection triumph over "a hostile press corps." "Try as they might," crowed O'Sullivan, "they couldn't put Kerry over the top." There was a time when I could rant about the "liberal media" with the best of them. But in recent years I have puzzled over the precise location of the "liberal media."

[cry baby]

1. I wonder if Mr. Roberts' article was published anywhere in the US.

Why would he be published on an India website? Is he that afraid to publish and criticize the Bushies here?

[NewJeffCT]

2. very good article

As the poster above me stated, it probably didn't get any US distribution...

[itzamirakul]

3. Very interesting article...though I fail to see

how he shows the "end of conservatism." Perhaps he means for himself?
At least, thank God, he has awakened to the inherent evils of this current administration.

[ooglymoogly]

4. a sober analysis of the obvious...a must read

the surprise here is that it is by a conservative

[Kolesar]

5. Conservatives knew better, but they let the Iraq war happen

It was a great issue to bring Democratic voters over to their side in 2002 and 2004. What is immoral is that there must have been a hundred gop Senators and Reps who knew this war was ill advised and just "dummied up" and let is happen for the good of the gop. Murderers.

[Kolesar]

6. You will like this column better: Paul Craig Roberts at antiwar.com today

January 25, 2005
Jacobin to the Core

by Paul Craig Roberts
After listening to his inaugural speech, anyone who thinks President Bush and his handlers are sane needs to visit a psychiatrist. The hubris-filled megalomaniac in the Oval Office has promised the world war without end.

Bush's crazy talk has even upset rah-rah Republicans. One Republican called Bush's speech "God-drenched." It has begun to dawn on the formerly Grand Old Party that a bloodless coup has occurred and Republicans have lost their party to Jacobins, who cloak themselves under the term "neoconservatives."

What is a Jacobin? Jacobins ushered in the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. The Jacobins saw themselves as virtuous champions of universalist principles that required them to impose "liberty, equality, fraternity" not merely on France by a reign of terror, but also on the rest of Europe by force of arms.

Unlike America's Founding Fathers, who exhorted their countrymen to cultivate their own garden, Jacobins were not content with revolutionizing France. They were driven to revolutionize the world

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http://antiwar.com/roberts/

[gatorboy]

7. Good column!

EOM

[Yavin4]

8. Fantastic Analysis

Just fantastic. Finally, a real conservative speaks out. The conservatives that I came to know during the 80s would be opposed to Bush.