The Wilsonian faction of the Neocons lead by Slavophobe Bill Kristol is inventing a new bogeyman for America. It’s actually an old one, Russia. Rather than respect Russia’s interests, Kristol and his gang of warmongers want to create anti-Russian feelings in America. They are hoping that should God forbid their candidate Romney get elected, the US will engage in a new cold war. With our internal economic conditions, we can’t afford one nor should Russia be vilified.
Over the summer reporter Eli Lake of the Washington Times wrote a series of provocative stories about U.S.-Russia relations and the alleged failure of “reset,” the Obama administration’s policy to improve ties to Moscow. The most sensational ran on Page One of the Times on July 22 and led to several follow-ups. It alleged that a bomb blast near the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, the previous September had been “traced to a plot run by a Russian military intelligence officer, according to an investigation by the Georgian Interior Ministry.” The Russia officer was identified as Yevgeny Borisov.
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Orion seeks to create a media echo chamber on Georgia and Russia. Essentially it works like this: Tbilisi’s lobbyists generate contacts and information that they feed to sympathetic journalists. Orion frequently arranges interviews with Georgian officials and, not infrequently, stories centering on their charges magically appear soon afterward. Orion has wined and dined some reporters on its tab or picked up their travel expenses. There’s certainly nothing illegal about that but it’s worth noting that lobbyists are barred from maintaining these sorts of relationships with members of Congress because it so clearly presents, as we say in Washington, at least the appearance of impropriety.
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The journalists pick up on and spread each other’s work and Goldfarb, naturally, hawks their stories at his Twitter feed. Just last week, he called a new Lake story a “must read.” The piece at the Newsweek/Daily Beast, featured an exclusive interview with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who alleged that the bombing at the U.S. Embassy was “ordered at the most senior levels of the Russian government.” He was quoted as saying that Putin “is crazy about planning the individual details of special operations … I cannot imagine somebody touching a topic as sensitive as Georgia is for Russia, especially for Putin, without Putin having firsthand knowledge or command of it.”
Orion helps create a collective media reality that policymakers have to respond to. Other foreign governments also play this game, as do liberal and conservative interest groups, but rarely as well or so brazenly.
Bill Kristol and his band of chiken-hawks need to be isolated from the GOP. They are Slavic hating bigots and subscribe to Wilsonianism. These clowns are not Conservative, they are International Socialists. Russia is a sovereign nation that pursues its own interest. There is no need to demo nize and make them an enemy.
Tags: Bill Kristol, Rockefeller Republicans, Wilsonian Progressives
