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Ha'aretz (Israel)
April 5, 2003
White Man's Burden
The war in Iraq was conceived
by 25 neoconservative intellectuals,
most of them Jewish,
who are pushing President Bush
to change the course of history.
by Ari Shavit
by Ari Shavit
WASHINGTON--
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/0405-Neocon.html
(excerpt)
In the course of the past year,
a new belief has emerged in the town:
the belief in war against Iraq.
That ardent faith was disseminated by a
small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives,
almost all of them Jewish,
almost all of them intellectuals
(a partial list: Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith,
William Kristol, Eliot Abrams,
Charles Krauthammer),
people who are mutual friends and cultivate
one another and are convinced that political
ideas are a major driving force of history.
They believe that the right political idea entails
a fusion of morality and force, human rights and grit.
The philosophical underpinnings of the
Washington neoconservatives are the
writings of Machiavelli, Hobbes and
Edmund Burke.
They also admire Winston Churchill and
the policy pursued by Ronald Reagan.
They tend to read reality in terms of the
failure of the 1930s (Munich) versus the
success of the 1980s (the fall of the Berlin Wall). . . .
April 5, 2003
White Man's Burden
The war in Iraq was conceived
by 25 neoconservative intellectuals,
most of them Jewish,
who are pushing President Bush
to change the course of history.
by Ari Shavit
by Ari Shavit
WASHINGTON--
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2003/0405-Neocon.html
(excerpt)
In the course of the past year,
a new belief has emerged in the town:
the belief in war against Iraq.
That ardent faith was disseminated by a
small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives,
almost all of them Jewish,
almost all of them intellectuals
(a partial list: Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith,
William Kristol, Eliot Abrams,
Charles Krauthammer),
people who are mutual friends and cultivate
one another and are convinced that political
ideas are a major driving force of history.
They believe that the right political idea entails
a fusion of morality and force, human rights and grit.
The philosophical underpinnings of the
Washington neoconservatives are the
writings of Machiavelli, Hobbes and
Edmund Burke.
They also admire Winston Churchill and
the policy pursued by Ronald Reagan.
They tend to read reality in terms of the
failure of the 1930s (Munich) versus the
success of the 1980s (the fall of the Berlin Wall). . . .