Neocons have new home on MSNBC, slandering critics of Biden Ukraine policy

 

 By Reginald Johnson

     Commentary

  The same people who arrogantly pushed for the disastrous Iraq War (1 million Iraqi dead, 6,000 American dead) are back on MSNBC and CNN to push for war with Russia.

 These neo-con hawks have been rehabilitated by the so-called liberal channels to peddle their lies. And they're using the same slimey, McCarthyite tactics to get an edge --- calling people who oppose US involvement in Ukraine as stooges of the Kremlin.

 Discredited warmongers like Bill Kristol and David Frum talk of the urgency of confronting the Russians militarily and slam people like Tucker Carlson of FOX as “apologists” for Vladimir Putin. To his credit, Carlson has had several shows raising questions about the Biden administration’s irrational Ukraine policy.

 But the neocons have no shame.

 It brings to mind attorney Joseph Welch's famous rebuke of Senator Joseph McCarthy who was leading the communist witchhunt in the 1950s. McCarthy was making a career out of calling people communist and ruining their lives.

 At a congressional hearing in 1954 where McCarthy was trying to impugn the patriotism of one of Welch’s young law firm partners, Welch turned and confronted the senator:

  "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

 The fine writer Glenn Greenwald has written an excellent piece on the subject of the neocons, their tactics and their alliance with liberal media, called  “The Neocon’s Primary War Tactic: Branding Opponents of U.S. Intervention as Traitors.”  The article can be found on Substack and I highly recommend it.