Norman Podhoretz called for the cultural genocide of Islamic peoples

war is already opened on four fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran.
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01082007.html

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Neoconservatives have called for World War IV against Islam. In Commentary magazine Norman Podhoretz called for the cultural genocide of Islamic peoples. The war is already opened on four fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran.

The Bush administration has used its Ethiopian proxies to overthrow the Somalian Muslims who overthrew the warlords who drove the US from Somalia. The US Navy and US intelligence are actively engaged with the Ethiopian troops in efforts to hunt down and capture or kill the Somalian Muslims. US Embasy spokesman Robert Kerr in Nairobi said that the US has the right to pursue Somalia's Islamists as part of the war on terror.

For at least a year the Bush administration has been fomenting and financing terrorist groups within Iran. Seymour Hersh and former CIA officials have exposed the Bush administration's support of ethnic-minority groups within Iran that are on the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Last April US Representative Dennis Kucinich wrote a detailed letter to President Bush about US interference in Iran's internal affairs. He received no reply.

and the Palestinians. Otherwise spot on.

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But keep in mind, Reagan didn't have the rabid neocons in his administration we do today.

Oops- he DID, didn't he?

It reminds me of something about brillig and slithy toves....

Just what nonsense are we all living under, anyway?

Why doesn't he relax? What an ambitious chap! Is he driven or what? Definitely paranoid.

I'm afraid that it inadvertantly minimize real genocide in which masses of people are being exterminated on account of nationality. I think "cultural oppression" or "national-cultural oppression" would be more accurate. For that matter, some culture is good, and some not so good.

Other recent nominees: Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Pipes and William Safire. Gives you an idea of the kind of Neocon extremism the award celebrates.

Check out pipes article in the new republic fomenting the cause of military aid to Saddam... back in the day...

http://tomjoad.org/pipes.htm

to use nuclear weapons somewhere or other -- just to prove that they can . . . nukes are the ultimate big dicks, and as long as these guys have them they're gong to find a way to swing them . . . potential global or regional consequences mean absolutely nothing to these people . . . I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am . . .

Anyone with a position of authority who doesn't use his or her office to create a better world is mentally ill.

War and hopes for war have made Podhoretz and a whole bunch more people stark raving mad.

Mammon is more than just gold. Power, too.

the fishy kind, not legal types.

...long walk off short pier...

its sad but alas America is run by madmen in whitehouse Congress and Supreme Court

The funny part is we are losing and they are failing

the Powers to Be are feeling a bit scared right now

Leave him there with nothing but the clothes on his back and let's see how vicious he really is. It's always easy to talk big when all you have to do is have somebody else do your killing for you.