Neocons: Alive and itching for war

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Neocons: Alive and itching for war
By Ehsan M Ahrari
Jun 26, '14

If you thought that the American neoconservatives (aka "chicken hawks&quot of the George W Bush administration - persons who brought us the Iraqi invasion based on a mission to destroy the imaginary arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussain was hiding - you would be wrong. They are very much alive and are coming back through cyberspace and the airways trashing President Barack Obama's handling of Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. When they are reminded of the atrocious mess originally created in Afghanistan and Iraq by Bush and these very same neocons, they deny this linkage and then quickly proceed with their warmongering rhetoric.

The neocons' palpable penchant for war - as long as someone else's son or daughter is going to die in it - has rightly earned them the pejorative depiction "chicken hawks." Their proclivities are very much alive; they are itching for another war.

In their thinking, the United States has had a profound record of creating a post-World War II global order in such a way that it also has benefitted from the economic interests and freedoms of the countries of East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, while successfully containing the USSR. The American economy was robust enough to bankroll its ambitious global containment agenda, and its military was powerful enough to proffer security guarantees to its allies via NATO and other security arrangements in Asia.

Despite the global economic meltdown of 2008 and its deleterious impact on the economic capabilities of Washington to dominate the world by using its economic muscles, the neocons believe that such an assessment toward the future course of American foreign policy is nothing more than a manifestation of defeatist thinking. They continue to attach an inordinate significance to the fact that America remains peerless in the realm of military power; thus, no conflict is either too intricate or cumbersome to be resolved by the United States, if it becomes serious enough to do so.