But their ultimate lunacy is their snit over Bush's latest China moves:
Neo-cons cry 'appeasement' over Taiwan [posted before] http://atimes.com/atimes/China/EL11Ad01.html
Bye, bye NichiBei, hello Left meets Right neocon-inspired fascism.
Somebody needs to tell the PNuckleheads about biting the hand that feeds them. Isn't it enough that Cheney is pissing off the Euros and Russia over this Iraq contract ruckus, and Russia again over Georgia, the recent Russian elections (considerably 'fairer' than US elections) and over the imprisonment of the Oil-igarchs (good election move - BushBoy could cinch his re-election by the American masses right now by arresting all of the top Corporate American crooks)?
They've even miffed their craven Spanish allies. All they need to do is alienate Japan, and its game over, soon.
But no, the PNACers want to also piss off China. Well, even a chimp knows better than to anger one of his prime bondholders. The same Asia Times elsewhere states that foriegn central banks worldwide have this year bought USD to the tune of some $500 BILLION - that's half a trillion Pesos. That roughly matches the current US foriegn trade deficit, which means foreign central banks are basically eating this deficit.
Which means, basically, that American over-consumption is a global state-financed enterprise. Truely impressive. As an economic phenomenon, it has to be one of the most bizarre distortions in human history.
Of course, the neocon plan would be to rob and defraud these dollar reserve- and bondholders with the complete hyperinflationary debaucherey of the US Peso. Yeah, that would be WW4 alright, after the rest of the world flushed the USA down the economic toilet - if the PNAC crazies had their way. They may still yet. It would certainly fit their proto-fascistic, piratical, plundering modus operendi.
Now, didn't some ex-socialists do just that in early Weimar Germany in the 1920s, deliberately ruin their currency in their war against reparations to the French? Eerie ideological similarity between Scheidemann and our neocons. -Brad