Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War
The same cabal of warmongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war, and a racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence.
They are pimps of war,
puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the defense contractors
who lavishly fund their think tanks - Project for the New American Century,
American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the
Study of War, Atlantic Council and Brookings Institution. Like some mutant
strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does
not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories, how many times they
lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many
murderous military interventions go bad. They are immovable props, the
parasitic mandarins of power that are vomited up in the dying days of any
empire, including ours, leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the
next.
I spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent reporting on the suffering, misery, and murderous rampages these shills for war engineered and funded. My first encounter with them was in Central America. Elliot Abrams - convicted of providing misleading testimony to Congress on the Iran-Contra Affair and later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush so he could return to government to sell us the Iraq War - and Robert Kagan, director of the State Department’s public diplomacy office for Latin America - were propagandists for the brutal military regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as the rapists and homicidal thugs that made up the rogue Contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, which they illegally funded. Their job was to discredit our reporting...
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