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Etikett: Neocons

  • Georgien och de neokonservativa

    En något gamla dokumentär från BBC om personerna som drog upp riktlinjerna för den amerikanska utrikespolitiken under Bush administration längst ner från Youtube.

    Det kan värt att komma ihåg att samma personer var involverade i stöder för bokstavs och färg revolutionerna på platser som Ukraina och Georgien. Precis som när det gäller Irak skulle här skapas USA kontrollerade väst vänliga marknadsinriktade liberala demokratier. I ett korståg för demokratin. Tanken är och var en värld under amerikansk ledning och globala militär dominans. Georgien är i det här fallet en av många protektorat USA upprättat. Precis om Irak.

    Och förstås med Carl Bildt och Sverige som springpojke. Jag hade ställt frågan hur djupa banden är mellan Carl Bildt och den neokonservativa amerikanska utrikespolitiken. Är Sverige numera en del i det globala amerikanska säkerhetspolitiska komplexet? Frågan är ganska aktuell med tanke på FRA och dess betydelse för Sveriges relation med främmande makt.

    För den som läser läser engelska kanske nedanstående kan ge en liten förståelse för vad som händer i Kaukasus och det ryska-amerikansk agerandet. Analysen lär troligen aldrig dyka upp i svensk media men jag hållet helt med skribenten Justin Raimondo.

    Wars to Watch Out For- by Justin Raimondo

    The Russian periphery: I have long believed that the next stage in the neocons’ bid for empire will be a rapidly escalating assault on the remnants of Russian influence in the former Soviet Union – dressed up as yet another crusade for ”democracy,” Washington-style, launched by the U.S. This has so far been a political effort, typified by the various ”color revolutions” that erupted in the post-Soviet periphery, from the Rose Revolution in Georgia to the Ukrainian Orange Revolution led by Viktor Yushchenko. These efforts are apparently stalled, and even suffering from a determined rollback led by nationalist forces, and the next phase is likely to be a series of low-level proxy wars between Russian-backed nationalists and U.S.-backed ”democrats.”

    There are a number of theaters where hostilities could break out, but I’ll just cover the hottest hotspots:

    Georgia: As President Mikheil Saakashvili deflowers his own revolution and shuts down the opposition media, he could well try to divert attention away from his political problems by ginning up a fresh conflict with the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are protected by Russian troops and regional militias. Saakashvili, the great ”democrat,” is busy charging anyone who opposes him with being a pawn of the Russians (and therefore guilty of treason), but the West is calling on him to restore civil liberties – and, in an apparent effort to propitiate his Western benefactors, he has lifted some restrictions and called new elections. Widespread and growing opposition to his strong-arm tactics, even among many of his former supporters, spells political trouble for Saakashvili and his corrupt cohorts, however – and an appeal to Georgian ultra-nationalism (which was always the real ideological motivation of the Rose Revolutionaries) would bolster him in the polls and provide a much-needed distraction, at least from the ruling party’s point of view.

    In the event of an outbreak of hostilities, expect the U.S. to do what they have done for the duration of Georgia’s political crisis: proffer unconditional support to Saakashvili. With Russia aiding and giving political and diplomatic support to the Abkhazians and the Ossetians, and the Americans letting loose a flood of military aid to Tbilisi, this could be the first theater of actual conflict in the new cold war.

  • De neokonservativa arbetar vidare – de nya chalabi’s

    LAT artikel om neokonservativa Rickard Perle och hans kontakter med diverse oppostionsfigurer från Syrien och Iran alla sponsrade som lämpliga kandidater att ta över sina länder av USA. Naturligtvis som en del av det amerikanska programet att för ett demokratiskt mellanöstern. Demokrati i mellanöstern byggs förstås bäst upp med washington baserade organisationer. Perl och Wurmser har med sina kopplingar till den Israeliska högern är som en del kanske vet några av de pådrivande att invadera Irak.

    Grooming the next Ahmad Chalabi – Los Angeles Times

    The exiting guest was Farid Ghadry, an exiled Syrian dissident who,
    like Perle, believes it’s past time to replace Syrian dictator Bashar
    Assad. Ghadry, who heads a Washington-based group called the Syrian
    Reform Party, hopes to be the man in charge one day in Damascus. When I
    met him, he had already been granted audiences with David Wurmser, Vice
    President Dick Cheney’s top Middle East advisor and Perle protege, and
    with Cheney’s daughter, Elizabeth, who headed the State Department’s
    Iran-Syria desk from 2005 until last June. I asked Wurmser about
    Ghadry. Was he another Ahmad Chalabi, the checkered Iraqi exile whom
    the United States backed as a Saddam Hussein replacement in Iraq?

    ”He’s not asking for money, and we’re not advocating money for him,” Wurmser
    told me. ”As for him wanting power, sure, he probably has an agenda.
    But it doesn’t matter. This is where you go back to the Soviet Union,
    because it’s the same question that we always work with, from Lech
    Walesa to Vaclav Havel: ’Did they have an understanding of the malady
    and danger posed by the totalitarian regime in their country?’ ”

    The scenario of the U.S. backing exiles to aid in ”democratizing” Middle
    Eastern countries is so appealing to Perle, Wurmser and their
    like-minded friends that they continue to pursue it despite past
    failures. Perle, of course, was the most prominent and aggressive
    advocate of Chalabi, dubbed the ”Jay Gatsby of Iraq” for his social
    life and financial scandals, as the leader of a new Iraq. That effort
    collapsed when the Iraqi people, finally given a chance to vote in
    January 2005, did not award Chalabi’s party a single seat in the new
    parliament.

    Perle insists that his man, who has a new job with
    the Baghdad government, was the victim of a smear campaign led by the
    State Department and the CIA. The Chalabi experience has not muted
    Perle’s unabashed affection for dissidents. ”I think the best way to
    bring about regime change,” he told me, ”is to help decent people who
    are powerless without outside help.”

    People such as 32-year-old Amir Abbas Fakhravar, an Iranian dissident now living in exile in the United States. In a 2006 Washington Post Op-Ed article, Perle promoted
    Fakhravar as a heroic and inspirational figure around whom oppressed
    Iranians could rally, if only he were given America’s support.
    Fakhravar is president of the Iran Enterprise Institute, which takes
    its name and some of its financial support from the neoconservative
    American Enterprise Institute, of which Perle is a resident fellow. In
    the coming weeks, Fakhravar will be speaking at a conference in Palm
    Beach, Fla., on the subject of regime change in Tehran, addressing the
    Heritage Foundation in Washington and then heading to Rome to deliver a
    lecture on ”Democracy in the Islamic World.” Just recently, he was the
    honored guest at DePaul University’s ”Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,”
    where he was introduced as ”the hero of our age.”