2 posts tagged “neoconserativism”
I am still with Fred; however I just found out Giuliani has foreign policy advisors that I consider awesome (and the Slanted Left considers scary).
Those two are Norman Podhoretz and Daniel Pipes. Podhertz is considered to be a founder (not THE founder) of Neoconservativism and Daniel Pipes is a preeminent anti-Islamist advocate.
My Conservativism leans toward the currently much criticized Neocons. So you can understand why I think it is excellent Giuliani is utilizing Podhoretz and Pipes as part of his advisory team. What ever deficiencies Giuliani has in social Conservativism, the presence of his advisors point to a man that would want to win the War on Terror instead of retreat, lose and give Islamists a toe-hold of political correctness and adverse influence in the West.
In light of that I am going to be re-posting “’We Must Bomb Iran’ Says Podhoretz” and the article it is based on: “We Must Bomb Iran, says US Republican guru.”
The point of the two articles is deterring a nuclear armed Iran; however as you read them (the first will like an intro) realize that Giuliani surrounds himself with advisors (not sycophants) to mold an outlook of a Presidential Administration.
JRH
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"We Must Bomb Iran," Says Podhoretz
Mark Alexander
Saturday, October 27, 2007
A senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani has urged that Iran be bombed using cruise missiles and "bunker busters" to set back Teheran’s nuclear programme by at least five years.
The tough message at a time of crisis between the United States and Iraq was delivered by Norman Podhoretz, one of the founders of neoconservatism, who has also imparted his stark advice personally to a receptive President George W. Bush.
"None of the alternatives to military action - negotiations, sanctions, provoking an internal insurrection - can possibly work," said Mr Podhoretz. We must bomb Iran, says US Republican guru (more) By Toby Harnden
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We must bomb Iran, says US Republican guru
By Toby Harnden in New York
Last Updated: 1:04am GMT 29/10/2007
A senior foreign policy adviser to the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani has urged that Iran be bombed using cruise missiles and "bunker busters" to set back Teheran’s nuclear programme by at least five years.
The tough message at a time of crisis between the United States and Iraq was delivered by Norman Podhoretz, one of the founders of neoconservatism, who has also imparted his stark advice personally to a receptive President George W. Bush.
"None of the alternatives to military action - negotiations, sanctions, provoking an internal insurrection - can possibly work," said Mr Podhoretz.
"They’re all ways of evading the terrible choice we have to make which is to either let them get the bomb or to bomb them."
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Podhoretz said he was certain that bombing raids could be successful.
"People I’ve talked to have no doubt we could set it back five or 10 years. There are those who believe we can get the underground facilities as well with these highly sophisticated bunker-busting munitions."
Although Mr Podhoretz said he did not speak for Mr Giuliani, the former New York mayor whom he briefs daily appears to have embraced at least the logic of his hard-line views.
During a visit to London last month, Mr Giuliani said Iran should be given "an absolute assurance that, if they get to the point that they are going to become a nuclear power, we will prevent them or we will set them back five or 10 years".
Mr Podhoretz said: "I was very pleased to see him say that. I was even surprised he went that far. I’m sure some of his political people were telling him to go slow ... I wouldn’t advise any candidate to come out and say we have to bomb - it’s not a prudent thing to say at this stage of the campaign."
But Mr Podhoretz’s 77 years and his position as a pre-eminent conservative foreign policy intellectual means he can not only think the unthinkable but say the unsayable.
"My role has simply been to say what I think," he said, explaining that he takes part in weekly conference calls and is in daily email contact with the Giuliani campaign.
He is the most eminent of a clutch of uncompromisingly hawkish aides assembled by Mr Giuliani. They include Daniel Pipes, who opposes a Palestinian state and believes America should "inspire fear, not affection", and Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official who has argued that Condoleezza Rice’s diplomacy is "dangerous" and signals American "weakness" to Teheran.
"Does Rudy agree with me?" Mr Podhoretz asked rhetorically. "I don’t know and I don’t wish to know." But he added that "Rudy’s view of the war is very similar to mine."
Mr Podhoretz’s thesis is that the war on terror is in fact World War Four and that the 42-year-long Cold War should be more properly described as World War Three.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest honour, by President George W. Bush in 2004, Mr Podhoretz later sought a rare one-on-on audience with the US commander-in-chief. They met in New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel in the spring.
The author of the recent World War IV: the Long Struggle Against Islamofacsism spent about 35 minutes outlining his case for air strikes against Iran as Mr Bush’s then chief adviser Karl Rove took notes.
"Whether I had any effect on him I truly don’t know but I sure tried my best to persuade him," he said.
"He was very cordial. He was warm. He listened. He occasionally asked a question as I made the case but he was truly poker faced."
Mr Podhoretz left the meeting unshaken in his belief that Mr Bush would attack Iran before he leaves office.
"The spirit of the questions was not to try to refute or contradict what I was saying. I didn’t get any negative vibes."
He said that now "the debate [over Iran] is secretly over and the people who are against military action are now preparing to make the case that we can live with an Iranian bomb".
Neither Mr Bush nor Mr Giuliani, however, would countenance Teheran acquiring a nuclear weapon and either one would authorise military action once they were convinced Iran had passed the point of no return with its uranium enrichment programme.
"Unlike a ground invasion where you’ve got to mass hundreds of thousands of troops, it takes six months and everybody knows you’re mobilising, with air strikes, we’ve got three carriers in the region and a lot of submarines," Mr Podhoretz said.
"I would say it would take five minutes. You’d wake up one morning and the strikes would have been ordered and carried out during the night. All the president has to do is say go."
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Insight into a Giuliani Presidency
John R. Houk
© October 29, 2007
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Mark Alexander, an honours graduate in economics (and political science), is not affiliated or associated with any political party. He is the INDEPENDENT voice of REASON.
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We must bomb Iran, says US Republican guru
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Matt Sanchez is an embedded reporter for World Net Daily in Iraq. He provides a perspective that the Mainstream Media (MSM) has little courage to report honestly because of President Bush hatred. Any smacking of success stories from the troop surge undermines Leftist Democrats and Leftist MSM from their agenda of bringing down the influence of the Christian Right Conservatives and neoconservatives. Currently the former and latter groups I have mentioned are the victims of a relatively successful epithet propaganda campaign. In other words the Left is trying to convince the voting public that the war is the result of the Christian Right and neocon influence and they are correct. The conclusion the Left wishes to impose on the voting public is that the War on Terrorism in Iraq is an abject failure. Thus vote Leftist Democrat even though they have no viable solutions (other than abandoning the mission) to win the war initiated by President Bush supporters.
That solution is mere hate propaganda by the Left to regain political control of America to continue the eradication of Biblical morality and the transformation of America into a Secular Humanist value system that normalizes disgusting lifestyles and denigrates the Christian foundations of America’s heritage.
The ruthless Democrats will use any tool to win voters for their ultimate goals even if it means proclaiming the War on Terrorism and the coming clash with radical Islam a loss and something to flee. That plays well with voters that have become impatient with the war not ending microwave style, i.e. the quick zap and leave.
Since the MSM controls most of the dissemination of information to the public, the microwave generation listens. These are voters that care more about what happens to provide their comfort zone and family life in the now rather than the consequences of bad choices for the future. For the most part this chunk of voters listening to MSM propaganda is not political. If they vote at all it is because of unhappiness that the government is blamed for.
So we have the politically Slanted Right via alternate modes of media (Blogs and the few Slanted Right news outlets) vying with information dissemination of the Slanted Left MSM which supports Slanted Left Democrats. The non-political Joe American that merely wishes to live and pursue happiness votes on the scale that perpetuates their life goals. For these voters (again if they vote) the vote is cast for the person they believe will maintain their pursuit of happiness regardless of political affiliation. These are the voters that were enraged with righteous indignation at the occurrence of 9/11. And these are the voters that the Slanted Left have been working to erase the memory of the attack on American soil on 9/11.
Whew! That felt good.
Anyway back to WND embedded reporter Matt Sanchez.
Sanchez writes how Sunni’s are beginning to reach out to American Troops of the Surge because of the murderous rampage of al-Qaeda-Iraq (AQI). Read it and allow it to influence your thought patterns. Remember 9/11!
