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Entry: Regime Change Redux Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/regime_change_redux#7604 Post contents: I think what Kirt fails to understand is that it isn’t Bush driving this train. Early in his administration, Bush was willing within limits to follow the advice of his father’s realist advisors including Powell. For example, after 911, Bush called for the creation of a Palestinian state. The real problem with Bush is that he backs down whenever the Neocons demand something form him. There is ample evidence that Bush didn’t want to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby, much less give him a pardon. But Bush did so under intense and insulting pressure from the Neocons. The Neocons, much less AIPAC and the other like minded types on the left (e.g., Neoliberals at the New Republic etc.) have no problem with Bush taking the heat for very unpopular policies such as war with Iraq and the possible war with Iran. After all, Bush will be gone and the only damage will be to Bush’s Wasp family, hated by the Neocons and Neoliberals and Left alike. The Republican party, also hated by all of these elements, including the Neocons, will also be damaged. But why should the Neocons and their leftist allies be worried about that? They have a stranglehold on the Democrat party and certainly nobody in the Mainstream Media will identify the Neocons or their left wing allies (AIPAC, Neoliberals) as the cause of the Iraq war and coming war with Iran. In fact, Bush’s clumsy invocation of the threat to Israel posed by Iran seems more like a cry for help or pity than it does a rationalization of the coming war with Iran. In other words, Bush has always been too weak to resist the pressure being put on him. Of course Bush is responsible for his actions, but we should understand that he has chosen to be crucified in the arena of public opinion rather than face the music of those pressuring him behind the smoke screen of the mainstream media. Sent at: 2008 05 16