When Tony Blair leaves will the neoconservatives now in the UK

[whistle]

...government move into the polticial vacuum?

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The Henry Jackson Society: Would-Be Fascist World Rule
Posted: 2006/08/20
From: Mathaba

By Scott Thompson and Michele Steinberg

On July 14, as Israeli bombers began their 5,000 sorties against Lebanon, including the devastation of Beirut, the mass murder of civilians in the town of Qana, and repeated assaults on other civilian population centers, a would-be Nuremberg Rally occurred on a small scale in an undisclosed location in Britain, where some 200 afficionados of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson Society cheered the United Kingdom's support for the American-backed Israeli actions, and declared that this was "The British Moment." Alan Mendoza, who is the co-president of the newly minted Scoopers' group, reported that the 200 participants "cheered to the rafters" for "the prospect of a huge increase in both the scope and frequency of British ethical intervention over the coming decade." The occasion was the release of a book called The British Moment, which is the "manifesto" of the group, which names itself after the late U.S. Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.).

It is not considered good form, usually, to cheer at a funeral, and it was a funeral. The HJS participants were gloating over the corpse of the sovereign nation-state. To demonstrate the point, in his article about the meeting, called "This is the British Moment," Mendoza, a 30-something Tweener in the tradition of the American "chicken-hawks"—i.e., the American warmongers who have never donned a military uniform—crowed, "Taking our lead from our namesake," the Henry Jackson Society pushes a " 'forward strategy' to assist those countries that are not yet liberal and democratic to become so. This would involve the full spectrum of our 'carrot' capacities, be they diplomatic, economic, cultural or political, but also, when necessary, those 'sticks' of the military domain."

A few days later, on July 23 and July 26, the HJS filed a series of followup articles on its website, hailing the Israeli invasion and bombardment of Lebanon to supposedly "disarm Hezbollah" as an example to the United States and Britain as to what these two nuclear superstates should be doing. To the Baby Boomer/Tweener-aged imperialists, Lebanon does not deserve full sovereignty, so it needs "those 'sticks' of the military domain."
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The Henry Jackson Society is right now in its larval stage, set up in March 2005 by a combination of the scions of the "Golden Age" of British synarchy—the infamous Round Table—and the American neo-conservatives of the imperial/fascist Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), who needed a new base of operations and moved to London, as the American population turned bitterly against the Bush-Cheney regime in 2005. As EIR reported in June 2004, the CPD was reincarnated by the neo-cons for a third time, because support for the Iraq War "was in jeopardy." The first CPD of 1950-51 was a project of the Harry Truman Administration's Psychological Strategy Board, used to propagandize for preventive nuclear war against North Korea. The second CPD incarnation was in 1976, around the Presidential campaign of Sen. Scoop Jackson, who wanted direct confrontation with the Soviet Union. The men who ran Jackson's policy in the 1970s, and then founded the CPD, were the leading warmongers of the Bush-Cheney "first strike" preventive war doctrine, including Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's former Deputy Secretary of Defense, now at the World Bank; and Richard Perle, former chairman of Defense Policy Board. These two, along with Douglas Feith, Bush's former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, set up the rogue intelligence network in the Pentagon that reported directly to Cheney's office. Another important figure on Scoop Jackson's 1976 Presidential campaign team was Lazard Brothers synarchist banker Felix Rohatyn, who was his chief economic policy advisor.
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[dipsydoodle]

1. Sound like a bunch of crackpots to me

and I'm sure they'd be viewed as such by the great majority of the UK population.

[whistle]

3. Let us hope that will be the case, but the list of neocon

...memebers in the group is a major red flag

[Stockholm]

2. Not necessarily

Brits (Labour) I have talked to are tired of his faux labour policies and the conservatives are getting better at the triangulation tactic all the time.

It could be time for a small step to the left....

[whistle]

4. Time for a step to the left most certainly, but will the neocons in the UK

...now do what the neocons did in America? That is my concern that they will using lies <sophistry> and appeals of fast wealth without working for it through the use of market speculation and continuous wars.

[LeftishBrit]

5. I honestly don't think this is a danger here at the moment

One of the things that is toppling Tony is that there is a LOT of resentment of his pro-Bush policies. Partly because Bush is seen as an evil idiot; partly because most people here are strongly against this war; and partly because Blair's job is to look after his own country's interests, not those of another leader. Therefore this sort of neo-con stuff wouldn't go down well.

I'm not saying that the UK won't get involved in some form of new idiocy to replace Thatcherism and Blairism; just that I doubt that it would take this particular form.