This blog (Melinda Pillsbury-Foster) is a bit off the track from my usual reading list. She's a rabid libertarian with all the baggage that entails, but she also despises the neo-cons and has some excellent insights into how they think and operate. Sometimes I feel we overlook these details and underestimate their cunning in our zeal to bash them.
This snippet is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek bit of advice to mid-level neo-cons in the bush administration who might be getting a bit nervous since some of their peers (Libby, etc.) have been thrown to the wolves when they became inconvenient. I recommend reading the whole article, the snippet really doesn't do it justice.
An Insider's Guide to the NeoCon World: Get ready to meet the wolves of fate
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The conferences the Bush Administration held before this administration was assembled were different than any administration in the past. Real NeoCon Insiders, such as John Fund, provided the names for appointments, such as your own. They had unusual criteria for their suggestions, criteria that included if you could arguably be spun as incompetent when the time came for you to go off the back of the Sleigh. They knew the G. Gordons were thin upon the ground. You can think of it as an appointment but the reality is very much like being the guest of honor at a cannibalistic barbecue. In ancient times they always ensured the guest of honor for the ceremony was well fed. Easy to see why.
The NeoCon Cabal was not focused on the ordinary goal of an incoming administration. Their agenda was more personal. They were looking to reformat for the purposes of efficient thievery while placing patsies to take the blame. This is like laying land mines in the bureaucratic morass to prevent them ever reaching someone important. You were nominated as a land mine; notice the land mine never survives.
That was in accordance with the traditional tactical plans of Rove, Cheney, et al. It was necessary to lay down in advance the cover that would cut off possible prosecution and blame for the train of disasters that, if examined, would be revealed to be clever transfers of wealth taking place right out in open under the coloration of administrative business and policy.
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Perhaps you are there to still the voices that would otherwise be raised in alarm. If you got that appointment and are not primarily intended as a Land Mine you are probably Hostage of Affinity. By that I mean that you were placed because you have lots of friends outside the administration in a group, such as the Evangelical Bemused or in such ideological groups as conservative and libertarian.
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http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2006/03/insiders-guide-to-neocon-world-get.html#links
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