If you want a revealing glimpse inside the feverish imagination of a conspiracy theorist, look not further than this piece in the Asia Times of Hong Kong. The author, Ismael Hossein-zadeh, explains at great length the nefarious ties between the Bush administration, defense contractors, neoconservatives, Israeli agents, and the real power behind the militarist throne: American think tanks. Says Hossein-zadeh:
These think-tanks, which might appropriately be called institutes of war and militarism, are staffed and directed mainly by the neo-conservative champions of the military-industrial-Zionist alliance, that is, by the proponents of unilateral wars of aggression. There is strong evidence that the major plans of the Bush administration’s foreign policy have been drawn up largely by these think-tanks, often in collaboration, directly or indirectly, with the Pentagon, the arms lobby, and the Israeli lobby. These warmongering think-tanks and their neo-conservative champions serve as direct links, or conveyer belts, between the armaments and Israeli lobbies on the one hand, and the Bush administration and its congressional allies on the other.
The American Enterprise Institute and Frank Gaffney?s Center for Security Policy draw particular fire ? though its accuracy is less of the precision-munitions variety than of the Hezbollah rocket variety, or perhaps a roadside bomb. So, from what far country does Ismael Hossein-zadeh write his passionate poppycock? Iowa. He is a professor of economics, of all things, at Drake University in Des Moines.
