Nuclear proliferation turn around

Read Hullabaloo regularly for news and insights. It's worth your while. But, as most people, Digby seems to be deluded about our leaders, believing they actually intend to serve America. Oh well, some beliefs die hard.

In this post, Digby is talking about the rather bizarre turn in discussions about an international ban on nuclear proliferation. It seems that the U.S. would have the ban in place, but no inspections or verification provisions - too expensive.

Nuclear proliferation is a potent issue politically and an extremely important issue on the merits. That Bush and his team think it's smart on either level to do this right now is simply inexplicable to me. I'm starting to wonder if those Capital Hill Blue reports of a White House on drugs aren't true.

There can be no peace, no winning the GWOT, no safety for the people of the United States and the world without new measures and controls on the development of nuclear weapons. The idea that they are not doing absolutely everything possible to get formal and informal information about those weapons, whatever the cost, is shocking. That they aren't concerned particularly about Pakistan and India, one of which is the prime breeding ground of islamic fundamentalism ferchristssake, is completely and totally bizarre.

But, Digby has some inklings, and after getting feedback, he comes out with them...

The neocons have never, to my knowledge, been consciously working against American interests. Indeed, they believe that Israel and the United States' interests are the same, which in many cases they are. But, in my view, many of the policies set forth by the Likud party, to which the neocons actively serve as advisors (see "Clean Break") are counterproductive to real American interests in the region and serve the neocons fevered troskyite wet dream of a democratic world revolution under the Pax Americana.

I think that first sentence is where people get off the track. The neocons' interets are themselves. If America's interests coincide or cross-over their own in any way, well and good. But America is their tool, not their charge. And that is the essential point to remember. Unfortunately, that isn't restricted to neocons.

Still, Digby points out the truth, without being able to see it. He should read his own writing. (Even as in the post before this one he closes in on the truth when he says about Republicans: These people are not interested in governing in a democratic system, which takes negotiation, compromise and patience. They are about power which requires far less complexity.)

But, this last year has been something of a disaster for the neocon vision of American hegemony. We have demonstrated to the entire world in as vivid a way as possible that we are something of a paper tiger. It is perhaps impolitic of me to suggest that this might have induced a nutcase like Josh Bolton (who isn't Jewish, btw) to try to use Israel to undermine America's now very practical necessity to play fair in that part of the world as regards nuclear proliferation. But, I would not put it past him. His loyalties to the US can surely be questioned when in light of failure after failure on this most serious of issues (let's not even discuss North Korea) he continues to press on. If that's anti-semitic, so be it.

That last is because some of Digby's readers jumped on his post. Lord knows you can't discuss Israel without being shouted down as anti-semitic. There will always be hordes of people preserving the higher thinking, rational parts of their brains. I suppose they're more valuable at collectors' auctions that way.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.