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Nov. 5, 2006. 08:16 AM
DAVID OLIVE
The neo cons’ grand design lies in ruins. America’s political leadership will abandon Iraq and the neo-cons. An Iraq exit plan is now in the final stages. The only question is how rapidly the Americans will leave.
There isn’t a Republican drawing breath, war hawk John McCain included, who wants to campaign in 2008 on a diplomatic and military horror show produced and directed by a Republican White House and a GOP-controlled Congress. Among Republicans, the knives are out for their former neo-conservative comrades in arms, including Donald Rumsfeld.
In six years the neo cons have accomplished:
An America whose diplomatic influence has cratered.
Blighting of America’s self-image as a champion of human rights.
Discredited state of American conservatism.
Middle East further destabilized.
An Iraqi middle class contemptuous of American occupiers who cannot provide them with more than two-and-a-half hours of electricity per day
America’s only unalloyed victory since 9/11 -the dispersal of Al Qaeda’s network with the capture of many of its leaders - resulted from methodical intelligence gathering, And especially from the collaboration of American intel experts and a 155-year-old enterprise known as Western Union, whose interception of financial transactions by Al Qaeda and other terrorist operatives mapped the identity, location, and planned activities of entire networks of terrorist cells.
Charles Krauthammer, neo con and probably the last trained psychiatrist who will ever be mistaken by media peers as being invested with foreign-policy gravitas described the mounting chaos in Iraq as a nearly unqualified success.