American neocons
have turned wars into a profitable business, a US investigative
journalist exposes, nailing Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland
and her husband, arch-neocon Robert Kagan, for their dubious foreign
strategy.
Despite
the unsuccessful and disastrous Iraqi war launched under the George W.
Bush administration, neocons still play the first fiddle in Washington,
American investigative journalist Robert Parry emphasizes.
"If the neoconservatives have their way again,
US ground troops will reoccupy Iraq, the US military will take
out Syria's secular government (likely helping al-Qaeda and Islamic
State take over), and the US Congress will not only kill the Iran
nuclear deal but follow that with a massive increase in military
spending," Parry underscored.
The point is that American neo-conservatives have turned the war into a profitable business, the journalist pointed out.
According to Parry this dubious strategy is personified by "a single
Washington power couple" — co-founder of the Project for the New
American Century Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs Victoria Nuland.
The spouses are two peas in a pod: while Kagan was sweating his guts out to propagate the necessity of the Iraq War, Nuland engineered the February coup in Kiev that started "a nasty civil war and created a confrontation between nuclear-armed United States and Russia."
The spouses are two peas in a pod: while Kagan was sweating his guts out to propagate the necessity of the Iraq War, Nuland engineered the February coup in Kiev that started "a nasty civil war and created a confrontation between nuclear-armed United States and Russia."
Although "a sane person might trace the origins
of the bloodthirsty Islamic State back to President George W. Bush's
neocon-inspired Iraq War," Kagan and his fellow neocons do not
acknowledge that they bear the responsibility for this "head-chopping
phenomenon," Parry noted. Instead, Kagan is urging the American
decision-makers to intervene in Iran and Syria.
"In
Kagan's call for war and more war, we're seeing, again, the consequence
of failing to hold neocons accountable after they pushed the country
into the illegal and catastrophic Iraq War by selling lies about weapons
of mass destruction and telling tales about how easy it would be," the
investigative journalist elaborated.
So what is the root cause of Kagan's warmongering?
The arch-neocon wants the Obama administration to pour tens of billions of dollar into the US military-industrial complex. However, this is not enough for Kagan, who calls for even more military spending to counterbalance "growing Chinese power," an "aggressive Russia" and an "increasingly hegemonic Iran."
The arch-neocon wants the Obama administration to pour tens of billions of dollar into the US military-industrial complex. However, this is not enough for Kagan, who calls for even more military spending to counterbalance "growing Chinese power," an "aggressive Russia" and an "increasingly hegemonic Iran."
"There's also a family-business aspect to these
wars and confrontations, since the Kagans collectively serve not just
to start conflicts but to profit from grateful military contractors who
kick back a share of the money to the think tanks that employ the
Kagans," the investigative journalist revealed.
Parry
pointed out that Robert's brother — Frederick Kagan, a former professor
of military history at the US Military Academy at West Point —
currently works at the American Enterprise Institute, which has long
benefitted from the Military-Industrial Complex.
Meanwhile, Frederick's wife Kimberly founded her own think tank
called the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in 2007. Among ISW's
original supporters are right-wing foundations, national security
contractors, such as General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and CACI and
CIA-backed technological firms.
Curiously enough, while earlier ISW had specialized in the Middle Eastern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more recently the Institute has focused on the Ukrainian civil war.
Curiously enough, while earlier ISW had specialized in the Middle Eastern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more recently the Institute has focused on the Ukrainian civil war.
"So, to understand the enduring influence
of the neocons — and the Kagan clan, in particular — you have
to appreciate the money connections between the business of war and the
business of selling war. When the military contractors do well, the
think tanks that advocate for heightened global tensions do well, too,"
Parry underscored.
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