This post is based on my rather extensive reading of the project for a new American century, which was the think tank that enjoyed contributions from all of our most prominent neoconservatives. Including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, the list goes on and on.
Additionally I spent years in the United States military, specifically in combat arms. I talked extensively to infantryy officers, special forces officers, ranger officers, Navy SEAL officers and many others. They are all educated in this neoconservative thought. They are all completely convinced that America must be the world's lone superpower. They never question this. When someone tells you that their buddy told them the military is all right wing, this is what they're describing. Almost all the officers are neoconservatives.
Lastly, I am telling you what these people actually believe, what they act on, and how they think. I'm not just quoting their literature. I am giving the gleaned knowledge of what all this neoconservatism amounts to. Any of you can go read project for a new American century's literature, or any of the other neoconservative think tanks.
The focus of neoconservative foreign policy is that the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world. We need to export the greatness that we have created to other countries. There's a strongly held belief, and they teach it in universities and think tanks, that the world needs the United States to be the lone superpower, hegemony at all costs. This is an absolute obsession, it would be the end of the neoconservative world if China or Russia were ever to be equal to us.
Now if a country took a stance like this, and then had a nationalistic and outwardly aggressive posture. That would be a bad look. But if a nation believed in their own greatness, wanted to export that greatness, was also totally willing to take on any number of immigrants and refugees. That looks altruistic.
Neoconservatism is a religious belief in the power of free market capitalism and democracy. There is fervent adherence to the idea of American exceptionalism, and also that we can export that exceptionalism. Also that anyone can come to America, plug in, and become part of the American dream. Like all religions, it seeks to spread, convert people, and increase its power. It truly is a colorblind ideology.
Now add foreign wars into this mix. If you are going to change the world in the image of America, you have to go topple nasty regimes, and install our free market, secular, democratic system. You also need to persuade those people that you have their best interests at heart, so you let a whole bunch of them migrate into our country. That's how we've ended up with so many Koreans, Serbians and bosnians, somalis, Saudi arabians, Afghans and Iraqis in the USA. Everywhere we wage war, we take on millions of refugees. None of this benefits American citizens.
Our two most recent large wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, we were forced to let hundreds of thousands of their citizens come to America. Becausee we never made those Nations entirely safe for our allies.
Neocons know that Caucasians are no longer a supermajority, we are losing ground every day. So it just seems racist not to open our borders up to the whole world, as the whole world already lives here anyway. Neoconservatives are absolutely open borders advocates, although they insist they aren't.
So, if you are invading the whole planet and then inviting all those people into your nation, why not go ahead and let every Hispanic in the Western hemisphere move into your country? That's pretty much how the neoconservatives feel. They have no real problem with Hispanic immigration into America. They don't like it when it's so out of hand that it's a destabilizing factor, they don't like the cartel control of the illegal immigration flow, but they would gladly take on half a billion Hispanic immigrants into America tomorrow. They see no issue with that.
We have our own cringe words: Nation Building. There were so many lessons learned from Vietnam as well as other wars that were not necessary. Wars cannot change hearts and minds. If there isn’t a framework for democracy, you can’t “install” it. A constitution is only words, it’s like paper money, it only has value if everyone agrees to it. So just because it exists, doesn’t mean you’ve been transformed.
Sure, I wouldn't argue with any of that. But I think that when you look at the modern derivation of the neoconservative ideology, there's a more recent underpinning. Suffice it to say, progressives, neoconservatives and globalists all have a very similar outlook.
I literally just put this post together on a whim. I study and think about politics, military history and the downfall of America constantly. understanding these neoconservatives, and understanding why they think they're doing the right thing is important. They are basically still playing the colonial game, but they refuse to do anything for purely nationalistic purposes. Everything has to be part of this greater ideology.
It was well said even if it was on a whim. Your understanding should be shared for all to help make up their minds, and I thank you for it and your service. God bless you patriot!