How can we suppress the Neo-cons? I have no idea.

From today's Daily Telegraph:

The files show that in December 2002, Sir Christopher Meyer, then ambassador to Washington, wrote to the Cabinet Office with an “annual review” of the US, in which he noted that Mr Bush was keen to topple Saddam and felt it was his mission to rid the world of evil.
“More than anything else, he fears another catastrophic terrorist attack on the homeland, especially one with an Iraqi connection,” he sent in a diplomatic cable.
“His view of the world is Manichean. He sees his mission as ridding it of evil-doers. He believes American values should be universal values. He finds the Europeans’ differentiation between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein self-serving.
“He is strongly allergic to Europeans collectively. Anyone who has sat round a dinner table with low-church Southerners will find these sentiments instantly recognisable.”

I always argued that Bush 2, though the worst president since the 1860s, was not stupid - but clearly he was and clearly his sort of stupidity is thriving, despite Donald Trump. Now instead of Saddam it's Putin, Xi, Hamas, Iran.


Protestantism is at the heart of the matter though American Catholic and Jewish neo-cons are also very culpable.

People should not take very much notice when anybody who supported the invasion of Iraq talks about foreign policy.


If only the Americans would give up their empire and let Asian nations from Jerusalem to the Yellow Sea look after themselves.