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What facts or analysis did Raimondo get
wrong in his essay? Your post consists entirely of name-calling, and boils
down to smearing him as an "anti-Semite" -- probably the most disreputable and
lazy form of intellectual argumentation in the book. This is the kind of
rhetoric in which the JDL specializes.
Raimondo (along with Jim Lobe, Robert
Dreyfuss, Kathleen Christison and others) has provided invaluable,
detailed and accurate information and analysis of the role of the neocons
in the Bush administration. He has been well ahead of the curve on an
issue so important that it has even erupted into the mainstream
media.
I have never seen Raimondo promote
Catholic or "Jesuitical" ideas or policies in his essays on Antiwar.com.
Can you point to any concrete evidence?
By the way, Paul Wolfowitz, the chief
architect of the Iraq War, recently won a man of the year award from the
Jerusalem Post -- one of Israel's leading newspapers.
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Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:47
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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Rummy's
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Justin Raimondo is a
credulous creature of the Jesuits.
Having read a few of his
schizophrenic diatribes; they essentially betray the ideals of his
mentors, and their propaganda style to scapegoat other groups for their own
political ambitions.
Whilst he ranted, in
another post, about the errors of Dispensationalists, in his deceit he
failed miserably to articulate the seminal inspiration for such
religio-politico prognostications as being that of his very own
priestly pedagogues who presently also strive to bring global Judeophobia
to a new climax.
The tactic is much like
the Jesuitical, 'Protocols of Zion' which targeted Jews, Masons,
Protestants, Liberals, Free Thinkers and et al; as being out to enslave
humanity when all-the-while the clerics were the ones busied grooming
their house painter messiah Adolf to achieve the very ambitions
outlined in the Protocols and which the same clerics blamed on other
groups who sought a freer and more tolerant society.
Justin Raimondo;
"frothy-mouthed rant" - just another one of his torrential Freudian
slips.
Dave.
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Subject: [CTRL] Rummy's
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RUMMY'S RUMINATIONS
Leaked memo reveals Rumsfeld as clueless ? and
reckless
The leak of a memo written by U.S. Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld confessing that the Iraq war is going to be "a
long, hard slog" has dealt a body blow to the War Party ? and signals a
new level of desperation on the part of the radical
clique that lured
us into the Iraq quagmire.
Rumsfeld,
long perceived as
a hawk, now appears eager to embrace an exit
strategy. He has enraged
the neoconservatives by refusing to come out in favor of putting more
troops in the field, and, according to Charles Kupchan, an analyst with the
Council on Foreign Relations,
"It's clear now
that Rumsfeld is not interested in 'remaking Iraq.' He wants to get the hell
out of there."
He also wants to survive in Washington, where
the hunt for scapegoats
is on: the war is going
badly, and the general pessimism of the leaked
memo reflects this. Although confident of ultimate victory, "one way or
another," in the short run the outlook, according to Rumsfeld, seems
altogether bleak. The "global war on terrorism" is looking even grimmer:
"We are having mixed results with Al Qaida, although we have put
considerable pressure on them ? nonetheless, a great many remain at
large."
While Osama is not mentioned by name in the memo, he
doesn't need to be: our complete cluelessness as to his whereabouts is
underscored every time we receive one
of those eerie tape-recorded messages promising more terror to come. But
it's a lot worse than that. According to Rummy, we're flying
blind:
"Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing
the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and
dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical
clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?"
The
man wants "metrics." Maybe he should try these on for
size. Or isn't the number of American dead and wounded telling him what
he wants to hear?
In the Byzantine world of Washington intrigue, one
is tempted to believe that the Secretary of Defense, far from being
broadsided by this leak, engineered
it himself, because it makes him seem almost semi-rational next to the
everything's-coming-up-roses crowd. But there's some wild-and-crazy stuff
here, too, just the sort of Dr. Strangelove-ish ranting one might expect
from Rummy in an unguarded moment:
"Are the changes we have and
are making too modest and incremental? My impression is that we have not yet
made truly bold moves, although we have made many sensible, logical moves in
the right direction, but are they enough?"
Let's see: we've
turned the "just war"
doctrine on its head and established our divine right of
"preemption." We've invaded a country that never attacked us, occupied
it, and are now bogged down in a war of attrition where victory ? measured
by any "metric" ? is impossible. We have
not only alienated our traditional allies ? we've gone out of our way
to make sure they stay alienated. Far from confronting Al Qaeda, we have
been Osama bin Laden's chief
recruiter: U.S. policy seems designed to provoke the Muslim world into a
frenzy of murderous opposition to American interests
worldwide.
That's quite enough, thank you.
To
world-conquering Rummy, the conquest of Iraq is "too modest and
incremental." Sure, he wants the troops out of Iraq ? so they can move on to
Syria, Iran, and central Asia. But what really ought to make us prick up our
ears is the cryptic query near the end of the memo:
"Does CIA need
a new finding?"
As the Washington Post pointed
out:
"A finding, signed by the president, provides authority
to conduct whatever covert activity is stipulated. Rumsfeld did not indicate
the covert activity he had in mind."
Keep your eye on Syria, the
lynchpin of Arab "rejectionism" and next on the neocons' wish
list for an involuntary "regime change." The strategy being followed was
laid out in a 1996 policy paper prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu: "A Clean Break:
A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" targeted Syria as the main danger
to Israel and held that the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad.
The authors of that paper ? among them Douglas
Feith, now deputy defense secretary for policy, Richard Perle, disgraced
former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and David
Wurmser, recently appointed
Middle East policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney ? are now ensconced
in the highest foreign policy councils of this administration.
But
perhaps even war with Syria is a bit too "incremental" for the Napoleonic
crew in the Pentagon: Iran,
too, is in their sights. And they won't stop
there....
What this memo shows, above all, is the utter
recklessness of this administration, its unabashed radicalism: not since the
Bolsheviks seized power in a 1917 coup and went on to subjugate a third of
the earth's peoples has such a self-deluded power mad clique posed such a
threat to the civilized order. The conservative columnist Paul Craig
Roberts, echoing Claes
Ryn in Orbis, calls them
"neo-Jacobins," and points to the deadly danger the neocons represent to
what is left of our old republic:
"More dangerous an enemy of the
US and its traditional values than Muslims, neo-Jacobins have seized control
of the Bush presidency and US foreign policy. They will stop at nothing to
achieve their goal of World War IV in the Middle East."
Keeping
the Roberts-Ryn view of the problem in mind, the last sentence of the
Rumsfeld memo takes on an ominous aspect:
"What else should we be
considering?"
Okay, since you asked: How about letting Israel
fight its own battles, and concentrating on the
hunt for Osama bin Laden and the top leadership of Al Qaeda? Try
pursuing a policy in the Middle East that doesn't have all the earmarks of a
Likud party policy paper. And the next time a top general equates
Islam with Satanism, hustle him off to a mental institution the way they did
General Edwin A. Walker.
What else should they be considering?
That whole gang ? Rummy, Wolfie, Feith, and the rest of the neocon nest in
the Department of Defense ? should consider resigning. In
Japan, a failed policy is cause to fall on one's sword. Our neocon
samurai, unfortunately, have no such code of honor.
NOTES IN THE
MARGIN
More evidence for the theory that 9/11 ripped a
hole in the space-time continuum and repealed the laws of reason: The New
Republic is now deemed guilty of
anti-Semitism. The less said about the Greg Easterbrook
imbroglio the better, but one interesting spin on the discussion was
provided by David "Axis of
Evil" Frum, in
his capacity as chief
enforcer of neocon dogma. Opining that the danger to Jews worldwide is
so great that their "mass murder" is imminent, he
writes:
"There is something more than a little fishy about the
way that journalists who show virtually zero interest in the fate of these
endangered people have pounced on the Easterbrook story. And there is
something even fishier about the way that online journalists who have
inveighed against 'American Likudniks' and 'neoconservatives' in a way that
seems almost calculated to fuel anti-Jewish fantasies ? yes, this means you
Eric
Alterman, and you Mickey
Kaus, and you too Josh
Marshall ? have suddenly deputized themselves to serve as censors of
offensive anti-Jewish speech. Mike Eisner doesn't need your help, boys.
Nobody in the American media is going to hurl offensive untruths and
hysterical calmunies [sic] at him without thinking twice about it.
The same is not true, alas, of Paul Wolfowitz."
To use the term
"neoconservative" is to commit a hate crime. That is the "offensive untruth"
uttered by the writers Commissar Frum singles out. To speak the word is a
"calumny." How dare they "deputize" themselves, when we all know that
The Frum, and maybe Norman Podhoretz,
are the only legitimate "censors of anti-Jewish speech."
It's all
beginning to make a twisted kind of sense, the sort one might expect in the
Bizarro World we're
living in. Since Jews worldwide are supposedly threatened by what amounts to
a second Holocaust, to oppose a war to make the Middle East safe for Israel
is to be "objectively anti-Semitic," as Leon
Wieseltier characterized Easterbrook's remarks. This is the loopy
premise at the core of Frum's frothy-mouthed rant.
In this context,
for Frum to accuse Alterman, Kaus, and Marshall of being "hysterical" seems
like a classic case of projection. It is
Frum who is the hysteric. That he continues to delude himself into thinking
that anyone is convinced by his extravagantly self-serving excuse for an
argument is little short of astounding.
After all, how can he
maintain this stance ? that the power, influence, and even the very
existence of the neocons is a myth ? when we have the revered "godfather" of
neoconservatism, none other than Irving
Kristol, holding high the banner of "the
neoconservative persuasion" in the pages of the Weekly Standard?
Is Kristol, too, guilty of uttering "offensive untruths"?
The
"conservative" camouflage worn by the War Party is wearing pretty thin, and
Frum's authoritarian tone is a dead give-away. The goal of his sort of
criticism is to cut off all discussion and abort any inquiry into who lied us into war,
and why. Frum and
his cohorts ? many of
whom are foreign-born ? are deeply uncomfortable with the free-for-all
spirit of American politics. They are the biggest supporters of the "Patriot Act"
and the odious "Victory
Act," which would lay the foundations for a crackdown on political
dissent, and they are moving quickly to quash free speech
on the campuses
through the direct use of government
power.
Neoconservatism is an authoritarian power cult, a
conspiracy against liberty at home and peace abroad. We cannot rest until it
is defeated. Frum Delenda
est!
? Justin
Raimondo
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