Neocons are Crazy

Neoconservatives Are Crazy

The neoconservatives around George Bush are crazy.
They actually believe the United States can run about
the world, overthrowing governments by force and
establishing democracies in their place.

This group of maniacs not only wants war with Iraq, but
after that, war with Syria, Iran and North Korea. Any
government that doesn't meet their standards of a
modern, Western-style democracy is a target for
America's military might in their warped minds.

This is a prescription for the decline and fall of the
American Empire. Overextension — urged on by a bunch
of rabid intellectuals who wouldn't know one end of a
gun from another — has doomed many an empire. Just
let the United States try to occupy the Middle East,
which will be the practical result of a war against Iraq,
and Americans will be bled dry by the costs both in blood
and treasure.

This crowd has the gall to sneer at people trying to keep
the United States out of war as being "appeasers," if not
traitors. They act as if it were brave for a fat,
pale-skinned journalist or commentator to advocate war
that will be fought by other people's sons and
daughters. It is the worst kind of moral cowardice to be
for war if you yourself are not going to participate in the
fighting.

There is one, and only one, justification for war, and
that is self-defense when the country is actually
attacked. For some two-bit politician with a third-rate
mind to tell the American people that a Third World
country is an imminent threat to the survival of the
United States is ludicrous. The only threat to the United
States that I can see on the present horizon is the folly
of the Bush administration.

I was really wrong about that guy. I thought he was
smart. He's not. Look at how he latches onto the
bromides provided by his speechwriters and then repeats
them over and over. Look at how totally unaware he is
of the reality of the rest of the world, including the
United States.

It's hard to see how the "world's worst leaders" can
actually blackmail the United States with the "world's
worst weapons," since the United States itself has more
of these world's worst weapons than any country on the
face of the earth except Russia. As a matter of fact, we
might even have one of the world's worst leaders, at
least as measured by competence.

As president, Bush ought to be paying close attention to
countries that have the capability of destroying the
United States, and at the moment, China and Russia are
those countries. A lot is going on in Russia that does not
bode well for the democratic people in that country. And
maybe in the long run it does not bode well for us. If
Saddam Hussein could get an atomic bomb, it would be
in a crate in a warehouse. Every month, the Russians roll
off the production line more of their mobile ICBMs. Not
only can these missiles strike the United States, we
can't even target them because we don't know where
they are. Mr. Bush is like a hunter looking at an ant and
not seeing the lion.

Bush showed us what a naive, out-of-touch-with-reality
guy he is when, after meeting the Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, he pronounced him a trustworthy friend
"because I have looked into his eyes and seen his soul."
I think you could look at a career KGB officer's eyes for a
long time and not see anything he didn't want you to
see. Bush even proposed a nuclear disarmament treaty
based on a handshake, with not a word in writing.
Fortunately, better heads led him away from that foolish
idea.

It's unfortunate that he has surrounded himself with
neoconservatives full of hubris. At their urging, he's
acting like a little boy who suddenly fancies himself a
soldier and emperor of the world.