The Transparent Cabal

In The Transparent Cabal, Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D., provides the key to understanding "neoconservatism," its
meaning, and its influence as regards U.S. Middle East policy. Sniegoski's book is also an essential guide - both for concerned Americans and for people everywhere - to appreciating the concerns, aims, and pressure that U.S.
policymakers face, as presented by a faction of neoconservatives in key foreign-policy circles.

Surveying the neoconservatives' statements, writings, and policy papers, alongside that of Israeli defense strategists from the far-right Likud party in Israel, Sniegoski illuminates, in 19 compact, persuasive chapters, the strategic roots and aims of the neoconservative Middle East policy. His conclusion is compelling and provocative. Neoconservative policy for the Middle East, Sniegoski maintains, is premised upon the perceived need to defend Israel from its potential enemies. And influential neoconservatives see American national interest in just those terms.

Whether this is right or wrong as U.S. policy, Sniegoski admits, is for the American people to answer. But first they have to know what the question is. If U.S. Middle East policy is not about the promotion of democracy or the defense of American interests, but rather about something else, it must be discussed and debated among those called upon to give blood and treasure in its pursuit. The Transparent Cabal is the hopeful beginning of that discussion and debate.

While it is generally understood that American neoconservatives pushed hard for the war in Iraq, this book argues that the neocons' goal was not the spread of democracy, but the protection of Israel's interests in the Middle East, demonstrating that neocon advice on Iraq was the opposite of conventional U.S. foreign policy.

"Sniegoski . . . broadens the inquiry into many areas that desperately need sunshine and clarity."
--Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer and contributing editor, The American Conservative

" . . . a must read for anyone horrified by the disastrous course [neoconservatives] have set for U.S. policy."
--Kathy and Bill Christison, former CIA officials

"Sniegoski succeeds admirably in documenting the corrosive influence of the well-financed neoconservative lobby and its selling of a one-sided foreign policy to the Bush-Cheney administration."
--Rodrigue Tremblay, Ph.D., emeritus professor of economics and author of The New American Empire

" . . . required reading for all who wish to learn how American foreign policy has been hijacked, and who wish to reclaim it before it leads toanother Middle East catastrophe."
--James C. Russell, Ph.D., author of Breach of Faith: American Churches and the Immigration Crisis

" . . . devoted to saving the United States from an even worse mistake than its attack on Iraq. Patriots informed by this book will not be tricked into support of neocon war plans."
--Virginia Deane Abernethy, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Psychiatry (Anthropology), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

"[The] book contributes to an eventual [Iraq war] post mortem by laying out present-day politics that should be public knowledge."
--James Kalb, New York City lawyer and writer