Our current foreign policy strategery (neocon) is best defined as what Max Boot calls "hard-Wilsonianism," which advocates what Bill Kristol describes as a "benevolent hegemony."
Neocon foreign policy is more heavily influenced by American Progressivism than by anything else. The only difference between the 2 approaches is, the "hard" approach prefers exercising power and force, while the "soft" version advocates international cooperation.
Yes. It's progressive. Why do you think neocons like John McCain and Kristol so often express their adoration of President Teddy Roosevelt (and Progressive Party leader)? Why do you think they're also so cool with the New Deal?
If radical Islam is our enemy, how is our neoconservative approach of utopian nation-building working out so far?
Is it securing our liberties at home? No.
Has it stopped the infiltration of Europe by radical Islam? No.
Is there any evidence "democracies" in the Middle East won't go to war with each other? No.
Instead, the neocon foreign policy has actually helped radical Islam raise the Caliphate, by spilling American blood and wasting American taxpayer money in order to build 2 Islamic States, ruled by Sharia Law.
We're teaching jihadis how to build rockets too!
And check out the new logo for our Missile Defense Agency ... Sweet! Uh?
Yes. I've posted all of this before ... But some things are so important they need repeating.
We can't defeat progressivism at home, if we insist on promoting it abroad. And we can't defeat radical Islam, by building Islamic States (armed with rockets)!
Yet, there's even more bad news for the neocon persuasion ...
Facing Extinction: Christians in Iraq
Islamic extremists are pushing to eliminate ancient Christian communities in Islamic lands.
It is a persecution few dare name, because to do so means confronting powerful religious and political realities that have defied resolution for millennia and rising, popular anti-Christian sentiment worldwide. Christians are simply not seen as victims at all.
[N]ow after nearly 2,000 years, Iraqi Christians are being hunted, murdered and forced to flee – persecuted on a biblical scale in Iraq's religious civil war. These brothers and sisters in Christ who can trace their history in the region back some 2,000 years have fled to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and to northern Iraq by the hundreds of thousands to avoid certain martyrdom.
[T]raditional Islamic law mandates that all non-Muslims who submit to Islamic rule pay a special jizya tax from which Muslims are exempt; that non-Muslims must not hold authority over Muslims; not build new churches or repair old ones; and that they submit to various other humiliating and discriminatory regulations that motivate the murder and persecution of Christians by Muslim jihadist gangs who knock on their doors to collect what Islam dictates is their religious "due."
The traditional, discriminatory Islamic laws that have led recently to widespread and violent persecution of Christians have not been enforced in Iraq since it was an Ottoman province ...
But the invasion and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that removed Saddam Hussein have created political instability and an authority vacuum that has allowed a jihadist and supremacist power insurgence that preys on Christians in their midst with increasing brutality and boldness. In Iraq, half of the nation´s prewar 700,000 Christians have now fled the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of thousands have been tortured and martyred.
In addition, the new, post-Taliban Afghani regime´s constitution stipulates that "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam." Unfortunately the traditional Islamic classification of apostasy as a capital crime is often included in this stipulation, and Christians are executed with full protection of the law.
How any conservative worth his salt can continue to support this failed progressive foreign policy, is beyond me. Support war all you want, but make sure you're supporting a genuine war, you know, a fight! Instead of this utopian nightmare we're currently bogged down in.
Gettin' a head start I see...
Just doin' my usual thing ...
the worst part is that our graduate level Military strategy classes practically force feed you propaganda from liberal internationalist like Fukuyama, Barnett, etc. every paper i wrote while taking strategy courses attacked their ideology and their track record of failure. for my efforts, my class nicknamed me Darth Vader. the liberal internationalist have won the battle for the minds of our leaders and until we can shake their strangle hold we will continue to lose wars and waste our treasures fighting pointless battles. god help us.
Couldn't agree with you more.