Neocon
business as usual
“American
neocons have turned wars into a profitable business, a US
investigative journalist exposes, nailing Assistant Secretary of
State Victoria Nuland and her husband, arch-neocon Robert Kagan, for
their dubious foreign strategy. Despite the unsuccessful and
disastrous Iraqi war launched under the George W. Bush
administration, neocons still play the first fiddle in Washington,
American investigative journalist Robert Parry emphasizes.”
“The
point is that American neo-conservatives have turned the war into a
profitable business, the journalist pointed out. According to Parry
this dubious strategy is personified by 'a single Washington power
couple' — co-founder of the Project for the New American Century
Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State for European
Affairs Victoria Nuland. The spouses are two peas in a pod: while
Kagan was sweating his guts out to propagate the necessity of the
Iraq War, Nuland engineered the February coup in Kiev that started 'a
nasty civil war and created a confrontation between nuclear-armed
United States and Russia.'”
“'In
Kagan's call for war and more war, we're seeing, again, the
consequence of failing to hold neocons accountable after they pushed
the country into the illegal and catastrophic Iraq War by selling
lies about weapons of mass destruction and telling tales about how
easy it would be,' the investigative journalist elaborated. So what
is the root cause of Kagan's warmongering? The arch-neocon wants the
Obama administration to pour tens of billions of dollar into the US
military-industrial complex. However, this is not enough for Kagan,
who calls for even more military spending to counterbalance 'growing
Chinese power,' an 'aggressive Russia' and an 'increasingly hegemonic
Iran.'”
“Parry
pointed out that Robert's brother — Frederick Kagan, a former
professor of military history at the US Military Academy at West
Point — currently works at the American Enterprise Institute, which
has long benefitted from the Military-Industrial Complex. Meanwhile,
Frederick's wife Kimberly founded her own think tank called the
Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in 2007. Among ISW's original
supporters are right-wing foundations, national security contractors,
such as General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and CACI and CIA-backed
technological firms. Curiously enough, while earlier ISW had
specialized in the Middle Eastern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more
recently the Institute has focused on the Ukrainian civil war.”
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