Joe Conason and Wes Clark: Neocons planned to take out seven countries in five years.
Joe Conason reports that a passage in Wes Clark's book suggests that the Neocons planned to take out seven different countries within five years as part of their plan to establish a New American Century. The countries included Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Lebanon. The reason this plan did not succeed was because the US got bogged down in Iraq and had no plan to win the peace after they took out Saddam.
This revelation from Clark's book also undermines the argument that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was necessary to take out the WMD's and chemical and biological weapons. In fact, this was a first step in a larger plan for the Neocons to take over the country by scaremongering and to control the worlds' oil reserves. Iraq was simply an attempt to achieve empire and world domination, not a necessary war that was needed to protect us from Saddam. And like the futile attempt by Athens to accomplish that by their invasion of Syracuse, Iraq is also doomed to failure because of the willingness of Sadr and the rest of the forces arrayed against us to wait years if necessary to expel our forces.
The Neocon worldview is one of doom and gloom. It presupposes that the world's oil supplies are running out, that our alternative energy plans are not quick enough to replace the world's oil when it runs out, and that the only alternative for this country is to grab as much of the world's resources that they can get so that we can continue to live our lifestyle. Thus, they support the Bush plan for perpetual warfare and then lament that he was not strong or forceful enough to achieve that. What we have to do is to present an alternative that would not only solve our energy problems, but that would lift millions of people out of poverty through the creation of new jobs and the creation of a new tax base for our local governments.
We are at a crossroads as a country here. We can either be "Good Germans" and let the powers that be make all the decisions. That would mean that nothing would change even if Hillary or one of the other Democrats were to get elected. Or, we can decide that we are not satisfied with the way our current leaders are doing things and work for change at all levels and work to replace them.
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