NEOCONMEN: Their Utopian Dream

There has been much published lately about the Neocons (Perle, Wolfowitz,Feith,Cristol et al) and their lamentable and abject failure to implement the P.N.A.C. scenario (Project for a New American Century). Don’t believe it. Their enthusiasm hasn’t waned, it’s just temporarily in limbo.

When one considers their dream it really is Utopian in a way, and absurdly optimistic in it’s aims and aspirations.

Did anybody really believe the dream? Yes! Here’s what they hoped would happen:

Shock and Awe shuts down all government offices and military headquarters and effectively wipes out Saddam’s Command and Control. In addition it turns off power and sends the citizenry fleeing out of town in abject panic.

Then we roll into Baghdad in two weeks, are welcomed by young kids and beflowered maidens hailing our greatness and culture,shoot or arrest and imprison all the opposition, and station troops around town a la post WW II Trieste. In short order we establish a Coalition command in the various palaces, and begin to hand out contracts for the immediate rebuilding of the small amount of infrastructure we destroyed in our careful and precise surgical bombings.

An angered populace, furious at Saddam and all too anxious to demonstrate their ire, topple Saddam’s statue. Within a month Iraqis are employed in construction, the police and the military, an interim government is installed, and Starbucks, MacDonalds and Wal-Mart establish outposts in the new Babylon. The people are thrilled and within another month a new and stable Western style democracy is established.

Bush flies onto the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declares "Mission Accomplished". Shortly thereafter the oil is pumping and gushing and paying for the occupation, food and reconstruction, and the US is firmly in charge, perhaps preparing the troops for the invasion of Iran or Syria.

I hasten to point out that the dream didn’t quite become reality. But those geniuses sure came damned close, didn’t they?