{"id":4373,"date":"2008-06-22T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T03:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2008-06-22T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T03:30:12","slug":"neo-con-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/22\/neo-con-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Con Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very good summary of how hard-line neo-conservatives see the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and especially Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place in it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d can be found in an interview<\/a> at the National Review Online<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (NRO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) website by Kathryn Jean Lopez of Caroline Glick, the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post<\/em> who also serves as the Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at Frank Gaffney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Center for Security Policy<\/a> (CSP). What comes through the interview is how hard-liners like Glick see the relationship between the U.S. and Israel (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe war against Israel and the war against the U.S. are one and the same\u00e2\u20ac\u009d); the Manichean nature of the world (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dfreedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d versus \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the forces of slavery and jihad,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d versus \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d); how they conflate different threats (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dal Qaeda and Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a single \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enemy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d whose \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ultimate aim \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6is global domination and the destruction of the U.S.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d); their contempt for Europe (its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153refusal to accept the true lessons of the Holocaust\u00e2\u20ac\u009d); their Islamophobia (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dgenocidal anti-Semitism \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6has taken over the Islamic world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d); and their need for an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enemy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to give order to their world (Obama \u00e2\u20ac\u0153refuses to acknowledge that there is such a thing as an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcenemy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in international affairs. And as a consequence, he is unable to understand what an ally is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) Glick is also furious with Condoleezza Rice and the State Department for their presumed influence over Bush and efforts to force Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians. The title of the interview is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shackled Warrior: Israel in Bondage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth repeating: Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at CSP, an organization whose board of advisers have included over the years, among many other senior Bush foreign-policy officials, the current deputy national security adviser charged with Middle East policy, Elliott Abrams<\/a>. Now I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think Abrams is quite as radical as Glick or Gaffney, but the association is not one he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever renounced or distance himself from). Douglas Feith<\/a>, the former undersecretary of defense for policy and protege of Richard Perle<\/a> (another member of CSP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board of advisers), has rejoined the board, and John Lehman<\/a>, an adviser to John McCain, has long served on it. (Gaffney, Abrams, Feith, Perle and Lehman all worked in the office of former Washington State Sen. Henry \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scoop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jackson\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at one time or another during the 1970s.)<\/p>\n

There is one other document that I have cited before which I think summarizes the hard-line neo-con worldview particularly succinctly. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s by Dennis Prager, a California talk-show host who has stood by John Hagee despite McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s repudiation, and it can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Visit Lobelog.com<\/a> for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service’s Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very good summary of how hard-line neo-conservatives see the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and especially Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place in it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d can be found in an interview at the National Review Online\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (NRO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s) website by Kathryn Jean Lopez of Caroline Glick, the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post who also serves as the Senior Fellow for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}