Comments on: The Return of the Neocons http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/the-return-of-the-neocons/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 17 May 2012 14:28:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: modernity http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/the-return-of-the-neocons/#comment-1034 modernity Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:51:17 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=235#comment-1034 When you think about it the Milne's and Cole's of this world are conservative in their own special way, with a minute 'c' You can almost predict what they will say, they are not radical, their views don't change very much and they tend to blame the usual suspects, irrespective of the crisis or events. If America ever gets a considered and reasonable President to replace the oaf George W. Bush, then these fake anti-imperialists will be distraught, they won't be able to portray the US as the big bad beast, the melodrama that plays out in their heads will have lost a villain. What will they do? So the Milne and Coles have become the new neo-cons on the block, happy to excuse certain types of military intervention, if it goes their way ends justifying the means? Donny Rumsfeld would surely recognize that way of thinking. When you think about it the Milne’s and Cole’s of this world are conservative in their own special way, with a minute ‘c’

You can almost predict what they will say, they are not radical, their views don’t change very much and they tend to blame the usual suspects, irrespective of the crisis or events.

If America ever gets a considered and reasonable President to replace the oaf George W. Bush, then these fake anti-imperialists will be distraught, they won’t be able to portray the US as the big bad beast, the melodrama that plays out in their heads will have lost a villain. What will they do?

So the Milne and Coles have become the new neo-cons on the block, happy to excuse certain types of military intervention, if it goes their way

ends justifying the means? Donny Rumsfeld would surely recognize that way of thinking.

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