The Opposite of Realpolitik
Posted on | August 2, 2006
R. J. Eskow has an excellent take on the neocons’ government-by-fantasy:
….Now look at the events of the last five years. The advocates for war - virtually all of them neocons - have been proven to be profoundly, disturbingly clueless about “the world as it is.” They’re so uninformed as to seem almost innocent, until you consider the profound evil they’re created.
Take Dick Cheney. People assume that anybody that nasty has to be realistic, hardnosed, and unsentimental. Yet no public figure in recent history has been so spectacularly naïve. His childlike statement that “we will be welcomed with flowers” in Iraq should be enshrined among the great moments in simpleminded idealism - somewhere between ” “the flying saucers will save us” and “maybe we’re all tiny particles in a gigantic universe just like ours”….
Where are the realists? Why have they been shut out of government by the ideologues, and why does the mainstream press marginalize them?
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