Martin Armstrong — Why Did the USA Invade Iraq?

Short backgrounder on the recent film, "Shock and Awe."

How the neocons hijacked US policy with lies.

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Why Did the USA Invade Iraq?
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rousseau1214 — Neoconservatism

Backgrounder based on the recently published, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, by Andrew J. Bacevich.

Take away. "American leadership" implies US global hegemony that is based on power, which is in the final analysis military power.

AJB: On the Right they hoped to find the opportunity to create that alternative perception of reality necessary for fulfilling their radical aspirations. The essence of those aspirations was simplicity itself: to fuse American power to American principles, ensuring the survival of those principles and subsequently their propagation to the benefit of all humankind.

"Doing good" while also "doing well."

For those who may not understand American colloquialisms, "doing good" is synonymous with "do-gooder," which means "a well-meaning but unrealistic or interfering reformer." "Doing well" signifies achieving material success.

"Doing good" while also "doing well" is play on the current management maxim, "Doing well by doing good," meaning the management strategy of creating an image of a firm as one that helps people in order to increase the bottom line of the firm.

Gedanken zur Geschichte

Andrew J. Bacevich on Neoconservatism

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Dan Sanchez — How Russia's Syria Campaign Shocked the Neocon Quest for Empire

Good read.

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How Russia's Syria Campaign Shocked the Neocon Quest for Empire

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