Neocon Infested Bipartisan Foreign Policy Ends

by Oui Mon Feb 17th, 2025 at 09:56:16 AM EST

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Neocon infested foreign bipartisan policy the ultimate demise of the United States and influence across the ME and Near Asia. With Trump May include some European states too.

The Rise and Demise of American Unipolarism: Neoconservatism and US Foreign Policy 1989-2009

Not quite as Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden continued a bipartisan hawkish foreign policy.

The End of Bipartisan Foreign Policy | Peter Zeihan - 3 Feb. 2025 |

After four consecutive presidents adopting a neo-isolationist mentality, the era of bipartisan globalization is coming to an end. So, what will the future of US foreign policy look like?
US foreign policy once sought to prevent any Eastern Hemisphere power from becoming too strong, but all semblance of strategic coherence has gone out the window. This is reminiscent of the pre-WWII era, where each administration adopted a new foreign policy. This is likely leading us down a path where a dollar diplomacy-esque system will return.
Along with all these changes, the US military's global influence is declining, and foreign policy is in a state of flux. I suspect we'll see more erratic and reactive policies in the coming years, as the US military is used to play checkers instead of chess. Hopefully all those alliances and infrastructure that have been developed will stick around for future iterations of US foreign policy.

Twilight of the Neocons--and What Should Come Next | Newsweek Opinion - Dec 2024 |
The journalist Irving Kristol once remarked that a neoconservative is "a liberal who was mugged by reality." Like many early neocons, Kristol was a Marxist who became disillusioned with both the anti-democratic nature of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and the unanticipated consequences of liberal social policies in the United States. The writers and academics who abandoned Marxism to found the neoconservative movement were deeply concerned with political freedom and the moral decline of American society. While strongly supporting the separation of church and state, they saw religion as the social cement holding families, communities, and nations together. We owe these early neocons a great deal for they played an important role in checking the excesses of 1960s counterculture.
Yet it is in foreign policy that the neocons have left their most lasting mark. Many prominent neocons began life as Democrats who supported the war in Vietnam. They rejected their party's anti-war position and felt sidelined when the Democratic party nominated peace candidate George McGovern for president in 1972. Some, like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith, who had supported the candidacy of Cold War hawk Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson left the Democratic Party. They eventually joined Republican administrations and took their interventionist attitudes with them.

The warnings have been out there for a long time ... one of my favorites which explains the roots of extremist rightwing politics in the UK and Europe ...

Neocons Sighted On the Thames by Colman

Unsurprising as both Colman and I have warned repeatedly about "Neocons On the Thames".

The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the 'War on Terror'.
This report examines the history, activities and politics of the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), which we argue is the leading exponent of neoconservatism in the UK today grounded in a transatlantic tradition deeply influenced by Islamophobia and an open embrace of the 'War on Terror'.
Founded in 2005, the HJS based both its name and ideology on the interventionist US Senator Henry Jackson, a Democrat with remarkably illiberal tendencies, and has followed a neoconservative trajectory not unlike the neoconservative movement's counterpart in the United States. Thus while the society, initially based at Peterhouse College in Cambridge (UK) but later relocated to London, identifies itself as a bipartisan think tank, and a small number of Labour MPs did, in fact, sign up to the society's initial Statement of Principles, Conservative male politicians and thinkers have long dominated its ranks.

Corbyn accused of Marxism by Lord Daniel Finkelstein ...

EuroTrib archive key word | Henry Jackson |

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'Our New Possessions' American Exceptionalism (none / 0)

The New Ugly American: Manifest Destiny Gets a Reboot Under President Donald Trump
A few years ago, I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: "Our New Possessions." Its cover featured the Statue of Liberty against stylized stars and stripes. What were those "new possessions"?
The cover made it quite clear: Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. The subtitle made it even clearer: "A graphic account, descriptive and historical, of the tropic islands of the sea which have fallen under our sway, their cities, peoples, and commerce, natural resources and the opportunities they offer to Americans."
What a mouthful! I'm still impressed with the notion that "tropical" peoples falling "under our sway" offered real Americans amazing opportunities, as did our (whoops -- I meant their) lands. Consider that Manifest Destiny at its boldest, imperialism unapologetically being celebrated as a new basis for burgeoning American greatness.
The year that imperial celebration was published -- 1898 -- won't surprise students of U.S. history. America had just won its splendid little imperial war with Spain, an old empire very much in the "decline and fall" stage of a rich, long, and rapacious history. And just then red-blooded Americans like "Rough Rider" Teddy Roosevelt were emerging as the inheritors of the conquistador tradition of an often murderously swashbuckling Spanish Empire.
Of course, freedom-loving Americans were supposed to know better than to follow in the tradition of "old world" imperial exploitation. Nevertheless, cheerleaders and mentors like storyteller Rudyard Kipling were then urging Americans to embrace Europe's civilizing mission, to take up "the white man's burden," to spread enlightenment and civilization to the benighted darker-skinned peoples of the tropics. Yet to cite just one example, U.S. troops dispatched to the Philippines on their "civilizing" mission quickly resorted to widespread murder and torture, methods of "pacification" that might even have made Spanish inquisitors blush.

Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
That grim reality wasn't lost on Mark Twain and other critics who spoke out against imperialism, American-style, with its murderous suppression of Filipino "guerrillas" and bottomless hypocrisy about its "civilizing" motives.