Digby: Noble Neocons

Submitted by Digby on December 6, 2007 - 9:48pm.

Like virtually everyone else on the liberal side of the spectrum I've been greatly intrigued by Naomi Klein's new book "The Shock Doctrine," which posits that economic elites practice "disaster capitalism" around the world by taking advantage of the disorientation caused by crisis. It's a very coherent and compelling thesis that gives many of us, for the first time, a framework from which to understand globalization, preemptive war and massive government failure, among other things.

But one of the things that I've found puzzling is the idea that the human motivation for this elaborate regime is plain old greed.