The Neocon Plantation

Empire Of Absurdity: Recycled Neocons, Recycled Enemies

There are times when I wish that the United States would just drop the charade and declare itself a global empire.

As a veteran of two imperial wars, a witness to the dark underside of America’s empire-denial, I’ve grown tired of the equivocation and denials from senior policymakers. The U.S. can’t be an empire, we’re told, because – unlike the Brits and Romans – America doesn’t annex territories outright, and our school children don’t color its colonies in red-white-and-blue on cute educational maps.

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McCain’s Anti-Trump Broadside a Half-Baked Brief For Empire

Senator John McCain, never one to play it close to the vest, has amped up his criticism of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, calling it a “half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.”

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Woodrow Wilson & The Neocons

As a supplement to Robert Wenzel's earlier post, there are plenty of reasons why Neocons like Max Boot advocate "Hard Wilsonianism," and why neocon Michael Gerson admires how Woodrow Wilson "skillfully made the transition to wartime leadership."

Robert is correct when he wrote that Wilson in many ways: "was the first neoconservative."

Take a gander below at what Wilson said on July 4th, 1918 to a gathering at George Washington's tomb on Mount Vernon:

“It has been left for us to see to it that it shall be understood that they [the Founders] spoke and acted, not for a single people only, but for all mankind. We are in this war to fulfill the promise of their vision; having achieved our own liberty we are to strive for the liberties of every other people as well.”

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One Way To Tell a Neocon

When he says, "America," he means the imperialist presidency's propaganda, conquering, spying, and police-state ops. Take a WaPo editorial writer, who distorts Ron Paul (part of the job description) for FOX.

I Agree With a Neocon Historian

David Greenberg of Rutgers is upset at those who would make D.D. Eisenhower pro-peace. Indeed, the militaristic prez was a patron of the military-industrial complex, no matter what he said in his goodbye speech, as I pointed out in American Conservative. Dr. Greenberg is also concerned that bad people have criticized the Merchants of Death, and even used that redolent phrase. Get this straight: Boeing, Lockheed, Martin-Marietta, General Dynamics, and all the others are innocent of war promotion. No marketing for them.

Neocons believe that the US is supreme in the world

If you believe in this hegemony concept, it would be in our benefit to have factories established all over the World. After all, the World is our domain, right?

Doesn’t matter that it impoverishes your own country, because after all, you are wanting to drive wages down to meet the wages of other countries as that fits the need of your neocon hegemony beliefs and makes your corporation more profitable so that you can say you “earned” your bonus even though you destroyed your country.

But what if you’re a sorry sob like ole Virgil down in Central Texas that could give a rats ass about your neocon hegemony beliefs?

After all, all he wants for himself and his friends and family is for them to have the opportunity to live the American Dream with liberty, freedom and justice for all and without fear of persecution, terrorism or any of this other patriot act crap that these so called neocon hegemony clowns have dreamed up.

Empire against Republic: What explains the neocon rage against Wikileaks?

AEI and the neocons accuse Assange and wikileaks of being dangerous anarchists, but this is a case of Freudian projection. They are the anarchists. The reason they are so upset is that they believe deeply in the kind of unchecked executive power that is associated with the rise of a globally extended national security state. Empires, global spheres of influence and international affairs operate in an environment of political anarchy. Running an empire requires an army of diplomats and spies who have to strategically manipulate access to information, make opportunistic deals with unsavory foreign rulers, prop up favored puppets and undermine others, all with the threat of military force hanging over the process. The tension between republic and empire has been true since the time of the Romans. Many in the U.S. foreign policy and military establishments believe that public oversight is a nuisance in such operations; indeed, the most hard core imperialists openly contend that they are impossible to reconcile. The foreign policy hard-liners want both untrammeled power to surveill the public and complete insulation from any reciprocal surveillance of their activities.