President Clinton responded to the Neocons' call for an invasion of Iraq with the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998". That act would later be used by the neocon President Bush as authorization to invade Iraq in 2002.
Neocons dominated U.S. foreign policy under President George W. Bush. After their 9-11 "New Pearl Harbor" that PNAC predicted it would take, the neocons rejoiced. Bush and his neocon vice president Dick Cheney would gladly give their fellow Neocons the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2002. [HERE]
Neocons were in charge of U.S. foreign policy under Bush. Most of them had been "Chicken-Hawk" Vietnam War draft-avoiders. They would glory in a World War on Terrorism. In his 2006 State of the Union speech, the neocon Bush declared a Long War, reminiscent of the 17th-century Thirty-Years War that devastated Europe. [HERE]
Instead of issuing a mea culpa after the Iraq War had turned into a debacle, Robert Kagan instead, writing for the Brookings Institute in 2014, said that "Superpowers Don't Get to Retire" [HERE]
Kagan said he feared that the American people were becoming isolationists. Kagan was concerned that a war-weary America would turn away from his Neocon vision of World domination, long wars and Empire building. He had no shame about the Iraq War.
Kagan said that only an Empire can bring peace and enlightenment to the World, just like he said the Roman Empire had done. He said that the only country in the World that can be trusted for the job of Empire is the U.S.A. He said the U.S. is the indispensable nation because of its moral exceptionalism. [HERE]
President Obama believed what Kagan said enough to quote Kagan's book, The World America Made, in Obama's 2012 State of the Union Speech:
"America is a moral example and that she remains the one indispensable nation and that: Anyone who tells you otherwise ... doesn't know what they're talking about." [HERE]
Obama is also a long-time admirer of neocon Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski was President Jimmy Carter's National Security advisor. He masterminded the covert C.I.A. war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Brzezinski showed no concern over radical Islamic fundamentalism that he helped create. He said in 1998 that "some stirred-up Moslems(sic)" was nothing to worry about. [HERE]
They Set the World on Fire
In 2011 Obama went on to follow Brzezinski advice to "stir-up Moslems" to over throw Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Bashar Assad of Syria. The Obama administration hoped to reassure the American people by leaking to the main-stream media that this time the U.S. would only use "well-vetted moderate Muslims".
The main-stream media was caught surprised when over the horizon of Syria one day in June 2014 appeared the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The main-stream media had no idea of where they came from. They did not even bother to ask where ISIL got their fleet of brand-new Toyota trucks; nor their new black uniforms and black flags, clean white Nike's and their cache of heavy weapons. Were these the "well-vetted moderate Muslims" the U.S. had been funding?
The results of U.S. 19th-century-style manipulation in the Middle East are war, human catastrophes and foreign-policy disasters in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and everywhere. There are now so many "stirred-up Moslems" in the Middle East that one needs an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of them. The U.S. neocons deflect responsibility by repugnantly spreading Islamophobic racist slurs against all Muslims.
Presidents Bush and Obama have driven the U.S. into a pit by following the road map of 19th-century-thinking Neocons. Obama's reported policy of "not doing stupid stuff" has been very stupid.
The Modern Manner for Nations to Behave
For the 21st century the U.S. needs to abandon the Neocon quest for Empire, world domination and militarism. It needs to stop with the Neocon 16th-century Machiavellian covert regime changes. It needs to abandon 19th-century realpolitik.
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