The Waning of the War Whores

[David Morris]

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott

At Antiwar, Raimondo asks "*Ten Years Later: When Is the
Reckoning?<http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/03/17/ten-years-later-when-is-the-reckoning/>
*"

To this day, not a single US government official has been held accountable,
and the pro-war pundits – who spent over a decade relentlessly
agitatingfor the war – are in their same perches, war-birds screeching
for the
destruction of Iran.

There is much talk of the "lessons" the war has supposedly taught us, and
there is a significant debate about this, but what’s clear is the lesson
learned by the architects of this war: that being a neocon means never
having to say you’re sorry.

Having served as publicist-in-chief of the War Party has done nothing to
dim Bill Kristol‘s career: from his subsidized lair at the *Weekly Standard*,
he commands the respect – and the money – of major conservative politicians
and donors. Every Sunday he pontificates on Fox News, denouncing any and
all who question the wisdom of perpetual war as "isolationists." What
"lesson" has this neoconservative Rasputin learned from a war that, by any
standard, was a disaster for the United States and Iraq? Only that it was good
for business – *his* business, that is, which is warmongering.
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