Neocons 'Ukraine -Syria -Iran Gambit

Neocons' Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit

Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:41

Ukraine-Crimea-map-3195272 Somalilandsun - You might think that policymakers with so many bloody fiascos on their resumes as the U.S. neocons, including the catastrophic Iraq War, would admit their incompetence and return home to sell insurance or maybe work in a fast-food restaurant. Anything but directing the geopolitical decisions of the world's leading superpower. But Official Washington's neocons are nothing if not relentless and resilient. They are also well-funded and well-connected. So they won't do the honorable thing and disappear. They keep hatching new schemes and strategies to keep the world stirred up and to keep their vision of world domination -- and particularly "regime change" in the Middle East -- alive. Now, the neocons have stoked a confrontation over Ukraine, involving two nuclear-armed states, the United States and Russia. But -- even if nuclear weapons don't come into play -- the neocons have succeeded in estranging U.S. President Barack Obama from Russian President Vladimir Putin and sabotaging the pair's crucial cooperation on Iran and Syria, which may have been the point all along. Though the Ukraine crisis has roots going back decades, the chronology of the recent uprising -- and the neocon interest in it -- meshes neatly with neocon fury over Obama and Putin working together to avert a U.S. military strike against Syria last summer and then brokering an interim nuclear agreement with Iran last fall that effectively took a U.S. bombing campaign against Iran off the table. Read Complete Neocons' Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq