Men are not born, they are forged.
The forge-man is the synthesis of mind, body and soul, the shadow man is merely a brain imprisoned in a body.
The forge-man is not a creature of rationality but vitality.
For the forge-man, the mind is his starting block, for shadow man it is his prison.
Saturday, August 18, 2018
The Self Defeating Entitlement of the Neoconservatives
The Self Defeating Entitlement of the Neoconservatives
Royce DeWitt
Looking at the alarmist headlines, rallies and Twitter skirmishes of recent weeks, it is quite easy for us to forget that we still have another serious foe to contend with other than estrogen charged neo-Maoists clad in bandannas. As you can deduce from this article’s title, I am referring to the hypocritical and treasonous political faction popularly known as “neoconservatism.” Now, most traditional conservatives, reactionaries and paleocons already express (quite rightly) a profound distaste for the neoconservative project and recognize several key facts about it, namely its direct opposition to America’s national interest, intellectual descent from Marxism and overwhelmingly Jewish composition. Coupled with the hatred war mongering neocons have received from the far-left and publicity garnered by their disasters in the Middle East, one may ask, why beat a dead horse?
If only the horse were dead and buried! Like Monty Python’s Black Knight, though with twice the bark and half the balls, the neocons have courageously shrugged off their own bloody failures, time and time again, as just another flesh wound of no real significance, the consequences of which can be foisted upon somebody else: Is Iraq still fucked up? Blame the Iranians. Not enough people shilling for AIPAC? Blame anti-Semites. Jeb’s low energy getting even lower? Blame ignorant working class whites. One would think that a movement with such a stunning track record of failure and denial would at least do everyone the courtesy of riding off into the sunset or maybe even (if only we were so lucky) choosing honorable suicide. But no. After their unequivocal defeat in 2016 at the hands of Trump and destruction of any hopes that they would ever possess a real constituency outside of the Ivy League, Goldman Sachs or the National Review, the neocons have instead chosen to double down and persist in the fantasy that their blend of neoliberalism, cosmopolitanism and Jewish ethnonationalism is the only legitimate “conservatism” around.
Indeed, despite their 2016 loss and constant complaining under the current administration, the neocons have yet managed to capture a critical office in the executive branch, that of National Security Adviser, which is of course held by Iraq War cheerleader and draft dodger John Bolton. Bolton, it will be remembered, has neither renounced nor regretted his actions which helped lead to one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in U.S. history and the loss of countless lives; and, like the rest of his neocon brethren, considers himself above the bounds of ordinary morality. How else could you describe someone who is too much of a coward to fight himself but looks to start wars his kids will never fight in? Or shills for the MEK, an Islamo-Marxist group that has killed Americans and targets civilians? No, far from being the American patriot Burger Nationalists believe him to be, Bolton is just one more neocon who feels entitled to sacrifice Americans on the altar of his own ideology.
But the entitlement doesn’t stop there. Let’s have a look at New York Times “journalist” Bret Stephens, shall we? Son of a corporate vice president, product of an exclusive boarding school and the London School of Economics, and former WSJ op-ed writer, it quickly becomes apparent that “no” is a word Bret likely never heard much of, something further evidenced by anyone with a stomach strong enough to read his articles. For example, responding to the fiasco earlier in 2018 when Hamas attempted to mobilize Gazan protestors to scale Israel’s border wall, Stephens lamented in a May 16 article for NYT: “Elsewhere in the world, this sort of behavior would be called reckless endangerment. It would be condemned as self-destructive, cowardly and almost bottomlessly cynical,” then crying “Why is nothing expected of Palestinians, and everything forgiven, while everything is expected of Israelis, and nothing forgiven?” Surely someone who leapt to the defense of a nation that had constructed a strong border wall for itself and resolutely defended said wall (with lethal force I may add) would at least advocate for some immigration controls in the country he was actually born in? Well, no. A month later in an article from June 21, 2018, Stephans passionately made the case for nearly unrestricted immigration to his “home” country of the United States, exclaiming “I’ll be accused of wanting open borders. Subtract terrorists, criminals, violent fanatics and political extremists from the mix, and I plead guilty to wanting more-open borders. Come on in. There’s more than enough room in this broad and fruitful land of the free.” It doesn’t end there. Instead of taking the 2016 election as a lesson in humility and take some time to think why maybe, just maybe, Americans might want their borders to get a fraction of the protection their tax dollars pay for those of Israel, Stephans ranted in his June 16, 2017 article that “Bottom line: So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Maybe they should leave, so that we can replace them with new and better ones… O.K., so I’m jesting about deporting “real Americans” en masse. (Who would take them in, anyway?).”
I could go on. And on and on. Remember when John Podhoretz defended Israel’s lethal defense of it’s own border against Gazans but called Rep. Steve King “inbred” for simply wanting to admit fewer foreigners into his own country? Twitter screenshots certainly remember.
Your first impulse, dear reader, upon reading about the deeds of these cowardly, ungrateful people is likely to be one of outrage. Good. That shows there are still at least a few embers left in the dimming fire of morality. But might I also suggest a feeling of gratitude. Why? Because in war, the first side to lose control of its emotions often loses the battle and by letting Trump’s win get under their skin, the neocons effectively revealed themselves for what they truly are to all of America.
Sources (such as they are):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/trump-immigration-reform.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/opinion/only-mass-deportation-can-save-america.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/gaza-palestinians-protests.html
Royce DeWitt
Looking at the alarmist headlines, rallies and Twitter skirmishes of recent weeks, it is quite easy for us to forget that we still have another serious foe to contend with other than estrogen charged neo-Maoists clad in bandannas. As you can deduce from this article’s title, I am referring to the hypocritical and treasonous political faction popularly known as “neoconservatism.” Now, most traditional conservatives, reactionaries and paleocons already express (quite rightly) a profound distaste for the neoconservative project and recognize several key facts about it, namely its direct opposition to America’s national interest, intellectual descent from Marxism and overwhelmingly Jewish composition. Coupled with the hatred war mongering neocons have received from the far-left and publicity garnered by their disasters in the Middle East, one may ask, why beat a dead horse?
If only the horse were dead and buried! Like Monty Python’s Black Knight, though with twice the bark and half the balls, the neocons have courageously shrugged off their own bloody failures, time and time again, as just another flesh wound of no real significance, the consequences of which can be foisted upon somebody else: Is Iraq still fucked up? Blame the Iranians. Not enough people shilling for AIPAC? Blame anti-Semites. Jeb’s low energy getting even lower? Blame ignorant working class whites. One would think that a movement with such a stunning track record of failure and denial would at least do everyone the courtesy of riding off into the sunset or maybe even (if only we were so lucky) choosing honorable suicide. But no. After their unequivocal defeat in 2016 at the hands of Trump and destruction of any hopes that they would ever possess a real constituency outside of the Ivy League, Goldman Sachs or the National Review, the neocons have instead chosen to double down and persist in the fantasy that their blend of neoliberalism, cosmopolitanism and Jewish ethnonationalism is the only legitimate “conservatism” around.
Indeed, despite their 2016 loss and constant complaining under the current administration, the neocons have yet managed to capture a critical office in the executive branch, that of National Security Adviser, which is of course held by Iraq War cheerleader and draft dodger John Bolton. Bolton, it will be remembered, has neither renounced nor regretted his actions which helped lead to one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in U.S. history and the loss of countless lives; and, like the rest of his neocon brethren, considers himself above the bounds of ordinary morality. How else could you describe someone who is too much of a coward to fight himself but looks to start wars his kids will never fight in? Or shills for the MEK, an Islamo-Marxist group that has killed Americans and targets civilians? No, far from being the American patriot Burger Nationalists believe him to be, Bolton is just one more neocon who feels entitled to sacrifice Americans on the altar of his own ideology.
But the entitlement doesn’t stop there. Let’s have a look at New York Times “journalist” Bret Stephens, shall we? Son of a corporate vice president, product of an exclusive boarding school and the London School of Economics, and former WSJ op-ed writer, it quickly becomes apparent that “no” is a word Bret likely never heard much of, something further evidenced by anyone with a stomach strong enough to read his articles. For example, responding to the fiasco earlier in 2018 when Hamas attempted to mobilize Gazan protestors to scale Israel’s border wall, Stephens lamented in a May 16 article for NYT: “Elsewhere in the world, this sort of behavior would be called reckless endangerment. It would be condemned as self-destructive, cowardly and almost bottomlessly cynical,” then crying “Why is nothing expected of Palestinians, and everything forgiven, while everything is expected of Israelis, and nothing forgiven?” Surely someone who leapt to the defense of a nation that had constructed a strong border wall for itself and resolutely defended said wall (with lethal force I may add) would at least advocate for some immigration controls in the country he was actually born in? Well, no. A month later in an article from June 21, 2018, Stephans passionately made the case for nearly unrestricted immigration to his “home” country of the United States, exclaiming “I’ll be accused of wanting open borders. Subtract terrorists, criminals, violent fanatics and political extremists from the mix, and I plead guilty to wanting more-open borders. Come on in. There’s more than enough room in this broad and fruitful land of the free.” It doesn’t end there. Instead of taking the 2016 election as a lesson in humility and take some time to think why maybe, just maybe, Americans might want their borders to get a fraction of the protection their tax dollars pay for those of Israel, Stephans ranted in his June 16, 2017 article that “Bottom line: So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Maybe they should leave, so that we can replace them with new and better ones… O.K., so I’m jesting about deporting “real Americans” en masse. (Who would take them in, anyway?).”
I could go on. And on and on. Remember when John Podhoretz defended Israel’s lethal defense of it’s own border against Gazans but called Rep. Steve King “inbred” for simply wanting to admit fewer foreigners into his own country? Twitter screenshots certainly remember.
Your first impulse, dear reader, upon reading about the deeds of these cowardly, ungrateful people is likely to be one of outrage. Good. That shows there are still at least a few embers left in the dimming fire of morality. But might I also suggest a feeling of gratitude. Why? Because in war, the first side to lose control of its emotions often loses the battle and by letting Trump’s win get under their skin, the neocons effectively revealed themselves for what they truly are to all of America.
Sources (such as they are):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/trump-immigration-reform.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/opinion/only-mass-deportation-can-save-america.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/gaza-palestinians-protests.html
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