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Bill Buckley’s Crocodile Tears


Behold William F. Buckley, excuse maker. "One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed," Buckley begins, stating what some of us knew six months before the invasion (neocons are slow learners). "Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans," continues the former CIA agent. "The great human reserves that call for civil life haven’t proved strong enough. No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols." In other words, for Buckley and no doubt many of his neocon fellows, the Iraqis are incapable of "civil life," never mind the underpinnings of such a life were systematically shock and awed to smithereens...

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Bill Buckley’s Crocodile Tears

Kurt Nimmo

Friday February 24th 2006, 8:21 pm

Behold William F. Buckley, excuse maker. "One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed," Buckley begins, stating what some of us knew six months before the invasion (neocons are slow learners). "Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans," continues the former CIA agent. "The great human reserves that call for civil life haven’t proved strong enough. No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols."

In other words, for Buckley and no doubt many of his neocon fellows, the Iraqis are incapable of "civil life," never mind the underpinnings of such a life were systematically shock and awed to smithereens. As is often documented here, the "ice men" work for the Pentagon, the CIA, and the British SAS. Others are criminals taking advantage of a terrible situation. Bill is unable to admit all of this because he believes, or expects us to believe, the Pentagon failed its "mission."

Of course, the Pentagon did not fail its mission. Its mission was to destroy Iraq and that is precisely what it did. Now it will attempt to destroy Iran, although that will be a tough nut to crack.

It is interesting to witness neocons in turmoil. For instance, Reuel Marc Gerecht, another former CIA operative, although it is said there is nothing former with the CIA—you’re in for life, unless you pushed pencils or swept floors.

Gerecht "now speaks of the bombing of the especially sacred Shiite mosque in Samara and what that has precipitated in the way of revenge," writes Bill. "He concludes that 'The bombing has completely demolished’ what was being attempted—to bring Sunnis into the defense and interior ministries."

It can also be said the bombing accomplished what Gerecht’s Straussian neocon contemporaries had in mind all along—destroying Iraqi society and culture and in the process breaking the country into several small, easily manageable pieces to be lorded over by hand-picked crime bosses. "If President Bush follows his own logic and compels his administration to follow him against Iraq and Iran, then he will sow the seeds for a new, safer, more liberal order in the Middle East," Gerecht said before reality snuck up and knocked him off his feet. Of course it is entirely possible he said this because it printed nicely in newspapers and magazines.

Next, Buckley takes a can of paint and paints himself into a corner in short order. "Mr. Bush has a very difficult internal problem here because to make the kind of concession that is strategically appropriate requires a mitigation of policies he has several times affirmed in high-flown pronouncements. His challenge is to persuade himself that he can submit to a historical reality without forswearing basic commitments in foreign policy."

It does not matter what Bush said three years ago or what he will say next week. In Bushzarro world, a cardboard president, who is in fact not a president because presidents are elected, not appointed by judges, can say whatever he likes about democracy in Iraq because words and speeches are meaningless. Iraq is not a democracy. It was never the purpose of the Straussian neocons to install a democracy in Iraq. Straussian neocons are anathema to democracy both at home and abroad. It was never the intention of the Straussian neocons in control of the White House and the Pentagon to liberate the Iraqi people but rather cut them off at the knees.

In this sense, the Iraqi Mission was a smashing success, pun most assuredly intended.

I’m not sure if Bill Buckley knows this. Or it may be his task to sell the prospect that the Straussian neocon project, while fizzy with heart-felt intention and liberatory idealism, has failed because our rulers were blind to mean-spirited "ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs and grenades and pistols."

Of course, this is racist and xenophobic nonsense.

Before the invasion of Iraq, some of us read up on the Straussian neocons and took them at their word. "Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically," declared Michael Ledeen in the very same magazine where Buckley publishes his regrets. Another National Review contributor and fellow neocon warrior is Adam Mersereau, who wrote:

The kind of warfare that not only destroys the enemy’s military forces, but also brings the enemy society to an extremely personal point of decision, so that they are willing to accept a reversal of the cultural trends that spawned the war in the first place. A total war strategy does not have to include the intentional targeting of civilians, but the sparing of civilian lives cannot be its first priority. … The purpose of total war is to permanently force your will onto another people group. Limited war pits combatants against combatants, while total war pits nation against nation, and even culture against culture.

Ledeen was miffed because this quotation is attributed to him. But it does not matter if a brusque Marine said it or a less taciturn Ledeen—it encapsulates the Straussian neocon doctrine, as the reality on the ground in Iraq horrifically demonstrates. "In Strauss’ view, you have to fight all the time [to survive]," Shadia Drury, author of 1999’s Leo Strauss and the American Right, told journalist Jim Lobe. "In that respect, it’s very Spartan. Peace leads to decadence. Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in."

Buckley would have us believe the Iraqis brought this upon themselves because they are uncivilized tribes. In fact, 250,000 dead Iraqis, civilized or otherwise, is the ultimate cost of the Straussian vision.

Bill’s crocodile tears will not wash away that hideous reality.


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