Nekonzervativci so se obrnili proti predsedniku Bushu. Ladja se potaplja, podgane jo zapuščajo. Tisti, ki so bili najglasnejši podporniki Busheve politike preventivnih vojn in širjenja demokratične revolucije, sedaj obtožujejo svojega nekdanjega idola, in vse ki so okoli njegove nekdanje svetosti, nesposobnosti. Kajti, z idejo preventivnih vojn, vsiljevanja demokracije državam, ni nič narobe, tako še vedno trdijo. Če je prišlo do napak po zmagi nad neorganizirano Sadamovo vojsko, nimajo neokonzervativci nič pri tem.

Michael Rubin, former Pentagon Office of Special Plans and Coalition Provisional Authority staffer: “Where I most blame George Bush is that through his rhetoric people trusted him, people believed him. Reformists came out of the woodwork and exposed themselves.” By failing to match his rhetoric with action, Rubin adds, Bush has betrayed Iraqi reformers in a way that is “not much different from what his father did on February 15, 1991, when he called the Iraqi people to rise up, and then had second thoughts and didn’t do anything once they did.”

Bush, izdajalec? Huh, a ni še pred kratkim v Iraku šlo vse jolie good?

Če še niste prebrali članka na Vanity Fair (tistega, katerega izsek je malo nižje na mojem blogu), to le storite. Neokonzervativci si iščejo novih gostiteljev, ti paraziti ne morejo ničesar narediti iz lastne moči in zato potrebujejo politično telo skozi katero bodo lahko izvrševali svoje nore ideje. Republikanci se niso izkazali, bodo zdaj na vrsti demokrati?

Kenneth Adelman: “The problem here is not a selling job. The problem is a performance job.… Rumsfeld has said that the war could never be lost in Iraq, it could only be lost in Washington. I don’t think that’s true at all. We’re losing in Iraq.… I’ve worked with [Rumsfeld] three times in my life. I’ve been to each of his houses, in Chicago, Taos, Santa Fe, Santo Domingo, and Las Vegas. I’m very, very fond of him, but I’m crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don’t know. He certainly fooled me.”

Da, neokonzervativci bi radi svet prepričali v to, da so bili prevarani. Ideali so bili izdani, revolucija zavržena. Toda, morebiti še ni vse tako hudo, morebiti se bi dalo vso krivdo naprtiti samo enemu človeku:

Joshua Muravchik, a neoconservative at the American Enterprise Institute, said he is distressed “to see neocons turning on Bush” but said he believes they should admit mistakes and openly discuss what went wrong. “All of us who supported the war have to share some of the blame for that,” he said. “There’s a question to be sorted out: whether the war was a sound idea but very badly executed. And if that’s the case, it appears to me the person most responsible for the bad execution was Rumsfeld, and it means neocons should not get too angry at Bush about that.”

Donald Rumsfeld, kriv vsega?

Je nekaj ogabnega, ko se nekdanji zavezniki začnejo spravljati drug na drugega. Širi se vonj po mrhovini propadlih zavezništev, začenja se blame game, iskanje grešnega kozla. Toda, pozor, ideja še ni mrtva! Demokrati so prav tako oboleli od fantazije o mogočni Ameriki, ki mora po tujini preganjati pošasti kot republikanci. Le drugače imenujejo svoje vojne; rečejo jim humanitarne intervencije.