Question: What’s the difference between a Soviet-era communist and a neoconservative?
Answer: Very little, if anything, when it comes to foreign policy.
The reason for this answer is that world domination is obviously the goal of the self-described “former” Trotskyites (advocates of permanent revolution) who took over the Republican Party during the Reagan years and who are described as “neoconservatives.” World domination is what these same people told us was the reason for “fighting” the Cold War all those years. Read Ron Paul’s LRC article entitled “We’ve Been Neoconned.” That this is true was on display in a recent LRC blog depicting a debate between one of the many FOX News former general/current defense contractor employee dudes and Professor David Henderson over Ron Paul’s noninterventionist foreign policy. Every time program host John Stossel or Professor Henderson would question say, why there are still troops in Japan, South Korea, Germany, etc., etc., the spokesman for the military/industrial/congressional complex would answer by saying “we” have “interests” to “protect.” You might not know it, dear reader, but YOU have “interests” to protect in at least 130 countries around the world. And these interests are so important that your government needs to send heavily armed, professional murderers (er, I mean, “soldiers”) to those places to use force, if need be, to protect YOUR interests. So don’t be so damned ungrateful. The next time you see a guy or gal walking around the grocery store dressed in camouflage, say “thank you for your service” in protecting my interests in Central Africa, Australia, Somalia, and Timbuktu.
6:40 am on January 27, 2012
