Trump Torpedoes Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism in Single Stroke?

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The relatively tiny elite class ensconced in Washington, D.C. โ€” they who manufacture and service the publicly-subsidized, permanent war economy โ€” were surely none too pleased with Trumpโ€™s truly radical, for reasons explore here, recent speech delivered to the Saudi dignitaries assembled to receive his foreign policy prescriptions during a state visit.

In 1991, sitting U.S. president โ€” at the time, a โ€œretiredโ€ CIA boss โ€” George Bush declared a New World Order, a peculiar rhetorical machination by which he meant a multinational neoliberal technocracy that would ultimately subvert all national sovereignty and roll the nation-states of the world into a single dystopian administrative state.

โ€œWhat is at stake is more than one small country. It is a big idea โ€” a New World Order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause, to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.โ€
-George Bush, 1991

Elsewhere, he promised in vague terms that the enforcement arm of this new globalist project would be United Nations โ€œpeacekeepingโ€ forces โ€” national sovereignty or national interest be damned.

โ€œWhen we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this New World Order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the UNโ€™s founders.โ€

Contrarily, three decades later, delivering a speech that would have been hard to imagine any president in modern history delivering on account of its unorthodox omission of references to โ€œhuman rightsโ€ or whatever other liberal rhetoric seemingly accompanies every presidential speech in recent memory, Trump went out of his way to denounce the โ€œinterventionistsโ€ (a polite term for warmongers/neocons), the โ€œnation-builders,โ€ and the โ€œnonprofitsโ€ that have done so much to wreck and destabilize the world while draining the U.S. treasury to the tune of trillions of dollars.

Viaย WhiteHouse.govย (emphasis added)

โ€œBefore our eyes a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existenceโ€ฆ

This great transformation has not come from Western interventionists โ€ฆ giving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs. No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called โ€˜nation-builders,โ€™ โ€˜neo-cons,โ€™ or โ€˜liberal non-profits,โ€™ like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves โ€ฆ developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destiniesโ€ฆ

In the end, the so-called โ€˜nation-buildersโ€™ wrecked far more nations than they built โ€” and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.โ€

Case in point: Hillary Clintonโ€™s neoliberal jihad in Libya that deposed a relatively secular dictator and turned the country into a failed state with open-air slave markets.

The Trump Saudi speech might summarized succinctly in one sentence: You canโ€™t deliver democracy with artillery shells โ€” and, even if it were possible, doing so is not in Americaโ€™s interests, or anyone elseโ€™s save for a handful of psychopaths in Washington D.C.

Somewhere in a Wyoming mansion, Dick Cheneyโ€™s artificial heart skipped a beat when he saw his lifelong ideology tossed in the historical trash can by the man who singlehandedly ended his nepo-daughterโ€™s political career.

But he should probably just be happy heโ€™s not rotting in the Hague for the remainder of his miserable existence before he departs the vail and passes on to hell, back to his Father.

Speaking of rotting, somewhere in the 9th Circle, Madeleine Albright is equally apoplectic that the official policy of the U.S. government she so dutifully served is no longer to starve children with pointless and obscene sanctions regime for obscure geopolitical purposes, only to turn the very country targeted for regime change over to ISIS two decades later.

Benjamin Bartee, author ofย Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exileย (now available in paperback), is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.

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BEWARE!!! Ben Bartee never minces words, so read at your own risk. Ben is a Bangkok-based American journalist, grant writer, political essayist, researcher, travel blogger, and amateur philosopher -- with opposable thumbs. He is the author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.

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