{"id":10238,"date":"2015-07-20T07:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:13:19","slug":"seeking-war-to-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10238","title":{"rendered":"Seeking War to the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/07\/19\/seeking-war-to-the-end-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seeking War to the End of the World<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0Despite the disastrous Iraq War,\u00a0neocons still dominate Official Washington\u2019s inside-outside game,\u00a0government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion\u00a0leaders to keep\u00a0world tensions\u00a0high and money flowing to\u00a0military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and\u00a0Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the U.S. military will take out Syria\u2019s secular government (likely helping Al Qaeda and the Islamic State take over), and the U.S. Congress will not only kill the Iran nuclear deal but follow that with a massive increase in military spending.<\/p>\n<p>Like spraying lighter fluid on a roaring barbecue, the neocons also want a military escalation in Ukraine to burn the ethnic Russians out of the east and the neocons dream of spreading the blaze to Moscow with the goal of forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin. In other words, more and more fires of Imperial \u201cregime change\u201d\u00a0abroad even as the last embers of the American Republic die at home.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/robert-kagan.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11526\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/robert-kagan-225x300.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"Prominent neocon intellectual Robert Kagan. (Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, http:\/\/www.mariuszkubik.pl)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much of this \u201cstrategy\u201d is personified by a single Washington power couple: arch-neocon Robert Kagan, a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and an early advocate of the Iraq War, and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, who engineered last year\u2019s coup in Ukraine that started a nasty civil war and created a confrontation between nuclear-armed United States and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan, who cut his teeth as a propaganda specialist in support of the Reagan administration\u2019s brutal Central American policies in the 1980s, is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post\u2019s neocon-dominated opinion pages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking War to the End of the World Exclusive:\u00a0Despite the disastrous Iraq War,\u00a0neocons still dominate Official Washington\u2019s inside-outside game,\u00a0government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion\u00a0leaders to keep\u00a0world tensions\u00a0high and money flowing to\u00a0military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and\u00a0Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry. If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,6963,6763,1239,447,522,561,7415,7203,776,834,844,1665,865],"class_list":["post-10238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-consortium-news","tag-iraq-war","tag-is","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-neocons","tag-robert-kagan","tag-robert-parry","tag-syria","tag-us","tag-us-military","tag-victoria-nuland","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10239,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions\/10239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}