Who Are These Neocons Who Have Hijacked The Romney Campaign?

MJ Rosenberg

Sep 23 2012

Who Are These Neocons Who Have Hijacked The Romney Campaign?

I learned recently that many people do not really know who the neocons are or what they stand for. They know that Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Charles Krauthammer, and the editorial page of the Washington Post are neocon.  But beyond knowing that neocons are hawkish Likudniks, few know what that means.
Here is the basic document of neoconservatism that was incorporated into a letter to President Bush in 2002. As you can see, it is pretty much all about Israel. In fact, neoconservatism is all about Israel (although it is a movement that is far from exclusively Jewish and few Jews support the movement.)
It is also not really conservative. Commentary, which is the leading voice of the movement, is not conservative. It only mouths support for conservative causes to ingratiate neocons with real conservatives and therefore achieve dominance over conservative foreign policy. It only feigns interest in US domestic issues; its eye is always and only set on Israel. (Even the writing deteriorates when the Commentariat tries to discuss US issues.)
The “fake conservative”  strategy worked to get the neocons top jobs  in the Bush administration and appears even more successful with the Romney campaign.  Romney’s  foreign policy apparatus has been taken over by neocons like top adviser Dan Senor.  (Also, op Romney fundraiser Sheldon Adelson would be a neocon if he knew the word.) Romney himself is now openly neocon, saying that he opposes the Middle East peace process and favors letting Prime Minister Netanyahu decide our Middle East policy for us.
In any case, this is the original document that spells it all out. As unbelievable as it sounds, no neoconservative has ever repudiated it. If Romney wins, this is the foreign policy blueprint he will rely on. An Israeli foreign policy for….America.
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