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Dec 27, 2003

NEOCONSERVATIVES, LIBYA, ISRAEL AND WMD

by Liberty and Power

Raimondo hits one out of the park today in an article about Libya’s abandonment of WMD. Does the Libya agreement provide proof that Dubya’s saber rattling is the best guarantee of world peace? Not at all. Libya has been intensely interested in turning over a new leaf since the 1990s though Clinton and Bush (until now) showed little interest in these feelers. Raimondo speculates that Gaddafi wants to restore his country's pre-modern role as a Mediterranean power.

Raimondo predicts that the neoconservatives and other enthusiastic pro-warriors will condemn the agreement as a ruse. Why? Because it might put the squeeze on Israel to abandon its own WMD and ease up on other hard-line policies. As if almost on cue, Raimondo’s prediction has been confirmed today in two articles. First, Joseph Farah frets that Libya’s action will increase “international pressure” on Israel to abandon WMD.

Farah is a pussycat compared to Ariel Natan Pasko who defends the inalienable right of Israel (and no other country in the Middle East) to own WMDs. In what has to be the most priceless neoconservative quote of the week, he uses the pages of the normally secular Frontpage to proclaim: “Sure Israel should 'Ban the Bomb'; When the Messiah comes!”

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