It's the neo-cons, stupid!

For some, it was cut and dried. “This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression,” raged Seumas Milne in the Guardian. Robert Sheer in the influential blog, the Huffington Post, invoked “a neoconservative cabal” stoking an international crisis to influence the US elections.
Even better, Israeli security companies have been giving extensive training to the Georgian army – and were warned to withdraw their employees by Moscow just days before the fighting began.
So now there was also a juicy Zionist connection, with whiffs of conspiracy too!
Of course, this is not to downplay US or Israeli involvement and interests in the region. The expansion of Nato, energy security, military co-operation and all the other vital details of international relations certainly played their part in this conflict.
All that bothersome detail, however, is not as sexy as shouting “It’s the neo-cons, stupid!” across the blogosphere.
Makes you wonder just what is going to happen if Barrack Obama wins the US elections. Are the neo-cons still going to wreak their wrath, or are we going to have another hazily-defined but supremely evil ideology to blame for all the world’s ills? At least it would make a nice change.