Another neocon's dark past resurfaces

I'm just offering this up as an example that the neocons came in with some pretty dirty histories behind them. You may or may not know that Paul Wolfowitz was the ambassador to Indonesia and used Suharto's crackdown to elevate Indonesia as a foreign policy issue and, in turn, his own profile as a "democracy supporter" and foreign policy expert.

If you read between the lines, this old WaPo article pretty well tells the story. He remained quiet until the abuses rose to such a level that speaking out against Suharto would raise his profile in the Reagan adminsitration circles. Or maybe I'm just a cynic.

What brings this up today? Wolfowitz made his foreign policy "bones" over the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians.

The report, key portions of which were made available to The Washington Post, also charged Indonesia with using napalm against Timorese civilians and using "starvation as a weapon of war," condemning thousands of adults and children to death in camps for displaced Timorese.

"The commission finds that the government of Indonesia and the Indonesian security forces are primarily responsible and accountable for the death of 100,000 to 180,000 East Timorese civilians who died as a result of the Indonesian military invasion and occupation," ....

The report painted a grisly portrait of Indonesian practices, describing beheadings, rapes, the sexual enslavement of Timorese women and children, and the torture of victims in the presence of their families. In some cases, torturers burned people alive and stuffed them in snake-filled sacks.

Sorry to go off, but this one always bugged me.