My open letter to Neo-cons: Let's talk foreign policy over the last 30 years.

Reading over the CNN article today, it really should read: Neo-conservatives want their foreign policy back. Well then, it's time to discuss the actual results of that foreign policy and whether it would be wise for the United States to adopt the 1980-2016 view of the Pentagon.

We could go back just a bit further to 1968-1974(Nixon's terms) and we could easily point to the beginning of relations with the Chinese as a particularly bad foreign policy decision in hindsight. While I generally support the idea of detente on paper(playing enemy States against each other, to achieve optimal results while minimizing American casualties.)

The opening up and the capitulation of the American economy to the Chinese was a deafening blow.

The overthrow of the Shah resulted in the Hostage situation towards the end of the Jimmy Carter Presidency and arguably paved the way for current 21st century issues as it relates to the middle east.

To further compound these mistakes, in the noble goal of defeating Sovietism, we funded and trained the mujahedeen. Of course, that they would be a future enemy was something that the neo-conservative branch was well aware of. As Brezinski is famously quoted:

"What mattered more? The fall of the Soviets or the rise of a few desert fighters?" I'm sure he regrets the legacy of that quote, because as you neo-cons brag today: Russia has a 4% GDP. Meanwhile, radical jihadists are an ever existential threat, especially given our reluctance to fight the war with the same totality as we fought both the Cold War and WW2.

Even Madam Clinton, a neo-con like no other admitted the flaws of neoconservatism and your 30-year history at the Pentagon in her book hard choices, where she admitted that Syria was a major problem and that there was nothing but bad choices. As the Arab Spring completely faltered on the Obama Administration and the Pentagon. The idea of "building revolutionary democracies" collapsed on the lies of videotapes.

To use an Obama phrase: Let's be perfectly clear. You, neoconservatives are responsible for every foreign policy FAILURE in American history, dating from Nixon to Reagan to neo-liberals.

Your failure is so utterly blatant, that we're stuck in Afghanistan, and we haven't really won a war in 29 years(Desert Storm). That is, from the moment neoconservatism took hold you failed.

I can go back further in American history and point to foreign policy decisions I disagreed with, but the main relevance here is the neoconservative and their think tanks. Let's be clear: They are incompetent and ruthlessly so. They think they're the smartest guys in the room when in actuality they are the biggest dolts.

So, neocons, if you do win this(via Biden), let me give you a mandate: That 29 year losing streak, including the effort in Afghanistan/Syria you want to maintain? By the end of the Biden Administration, you should be successful in winning the war.

You, after all have crafted 30 years of foreign policy. It's time to show some positive, actual positive results to show for it. At the minimum, for the men and women who've sacrificed their lives for your grandiose yet unrealized plans.

And separately, for my PF colleagues. This is proof that Nationalism will not die with a Trump defeat. I will still defend this great nation from the neoconservative war hawk failures, even if this is a one-term administration. And I still feel Nationalism can unify us as a people.

 

What's a neocon? A National Review anti-Trump rag?