What the heck is a 'neocon'? - Part III
Published March 11, 2004
Another 131 signed one or more of a dozen PNAC letters to congress and a couple of presidents, and/or various PNAC policy statements. These are a Who's Who of right-wing power wielders, in and out of the administration:
Richard Armitage (Deputy Secretary of State);
John Bolton (Undersecretary of State);
Robert Zoellick (U.S. Trade Representative);
William Schneider, Jr. (Defense Science Board);
Richard Perle (formerly of the Defense Policy Board);
and William Kristol (PNAC co-founder), Norman Podhoretz, William Bennett, Joshua Muravchik, Max Boot, James Woolsey, and many, many more.
This is hardly the harmless few ('Five,' they said?) that neocons would have us believe it is. Besides their high positions in the White House, Defense and State, they've made the major appointments at Justice (Ashcroft), the EPA (Leavitt) and numerous other agencies controlling virtually every aspect of our lives.
And there's an armada of neoconservative "think tanks" and media spreading their gospel:
The American Enterprise Institute; The Manhattan Institute; Empower America; The Weekly Standard; Commentary Magazine; National Review; The Wall Street Journal op-ed's and their Opinion Journal; Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (think Fox News and a global TV, satellite and print conglomerate); and many, many more (here's a list of dozens of them).
It all adds up to a huge government-entwined web of influence that has changed what it means to be "America."
Don't let them get away with it.
- What the heck is a 'neocon'? - Part III
- Published: March 11, 2004
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- Writer: Hal Pawluk
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