July 22, 2004
Today, The Present Danger Is Neoconservatism
By Paul Craig Roberts
President Bush’s
neoconservatives have announced that they are
relaunching the Committee on the Present Danger.
The new CPD will be totally
different from the original. [The
Present Danger By Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl,
July 20, 2004]
I was a member of the Committee on
the Present Danger. It was a bipartisan private
organization consisting largely of
former presidential appointees who distrusted
naiveté about Soviet intentions.
One concern was that the US
government, feeling pressured to reduce nuclear arms,
would be outmaneuvered by the Soviets, who didn’t have
similar pressures, with a strategic advantage for the
Soviets being the result.
The members were patriots committed
to liberty, not warmongers.
Some of the neoconservative members talked about
“rolling back” Soviet
gains, but the majority of the members
rejected this as a romantic impulse not worthy of
discussion.
The committee’s main concern was
that US capabilities not be rolled back more than, or in
advance of, Soviet ones.
The relaunched CPD consists of
neoconservatives who are, in effect, an unregistered
lobby group for Israel’s Likud Party and its foreign
policy.
The purpose of the new CPD is to
foment
war against Islam.
Myself and others who sought to
maintain a balanced perspective will not be included in
the new committee.
With its goal of wider war in the
Middle East, the neocon CPD is itself the present
danger.
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Paul Craig Roberts is the author with Lawrence M.
Stratton of
The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and
Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name
of Justice
