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      Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster

      The main message of the neocons is that the US must predominate in military power in every region of the world, and must confront rising regional powers that could someday challenge US global or regional dominance, most important Russia and China.

      Jeffrey D. Sachs
      Jun 28, 2022

      The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is steering Ukraine, the US, and the European Union towards yet another geopolitical debacle. If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these US foreign policy debacles.

      The neocon outlook is based on an overriding false premise: that the US military, financial, technological, and economic superiority enables it to dictate terms in all regions of the world.

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      To Make Sense of Soleimani Assassination, Media Turn to Disgraced Iraq War Gen. David Petraeus

      To Make Sense of Soleimani Assassination, Media Turn to Disgraced Iraq War Gen. David Petraeus

      Soleimani and the militia groups he led played a key role in defeating the Islamic State in Iraq, but Petraeus denies this reality.

      Kevin Gosztola
      Jan 11, 2020

      Following President Donald Trump's assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, several United States media outlets have turned to retired military general David Petraeus for "expert" commentary on Iran because he was Soleimani's "adversary" when he ran U.S. Central Command.

      Not only did Petraeus empower Shiite militias to torture and ethnically cleanse neighborhoods in Iraq, but when he was CIA director under President Barack Obama, he leaked top secret information to Washington Post reporters in March 2011. He also lied to the FBI and improperly handled highly-classified "Black Books," which contained identities of covert officers, war strategy, intelligence capabilities, and notes from discussions with Obama.

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      Reverse Darwinian Selection Afflicts Trump's Washington

      Reverse Darwinian Selection Afflicts Trump's Washington

      This administration always chooses the worst and the dumbest

      Mike Lofgren
      Jun 26, 2019

      In the 1960s, at the very dawn of the New Right rebellion, William F. Buckley, Jr., declared that he would rather be governed by persons selected from the phone directory than the faculty of Harvard. Conservative egghead bashing has a long pedigree, and even Buckley, an aspiring patrician with one of the most laboriously affected accents ever heard, felt obliged to join in the populist trolling.

      Over the succeeding five decades, the conservative movement and its chosen vehicle, the Republican Party, have substantially achieved the goal of systematically devaluing expertise, thereby accomplishing one of their most cherished ideological goals: to prove to the American people that government doesn't work.

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