Posted on 07/17/2017 3:16:26 PM PDT by Lorianne
The neocons, who have influenced U.S. foreign policy since the 1980s, inflicting grave damage on U.S. interests and the world, are reinventing themselves as soldiers in the anti-Trump #Resistance
In these summer dog days of the Trump presidency, good news is hard to come by, but in late June it was reported that the successor institution to William Kristol’s Project for a New American Century, the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), was shutting its doors for good.
FPI was founded in 2009 to give the displaced neocons who had worked for President George W. Bush a platform from which to endlessly criticize the new Democratic administration and push for a continuation of Bush’s disastrous neocon foreign policy. (Some other neocons sheltered in place mostly inside the State Department and the Pentagon.)
During the Obama years, FPI gave a platform to Kristol and likeminded neocons such as Dan Senor, James Kirchick and Jamie Fly, who went on to serve as a foreign policy adviser to neocon favorite Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida.
FPI was generously subsidized by hedge fund manager Paul Singer. The Washington Post recently reported that “Those close to the organization said that in the new policy and political environment marked by the ascendency of Donald Trump, many donors, including Singer, are reassessing where to put their funds.”
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IMHO Kristol is part of the problem in this country.
They are proud residents of Loserville.
Why so dramatic?
Some of these guys went with Bill Clinton in the Nineties. Some went with Obama a decade back. Some went with Hillary last time. And some will go with the Democrat next time.
Calling it "resistance" is making more of them than they deserve.
These are not “neocons”, whatever they may call themselves.
Well, they call themselves neocons, or did until they destroyed the brand.
Pure Neoconservative Trotskyism.
The nocons have always opposed actual conservatives.
They are liberals who love nation building.
They use our great young people as cannon fodder in ME hell holes.
“The nocons have always opposed actual conservatives.”
Yes. E.g., they supported G.H.W. Bush over Pat Buchanan. They’re warmed-over Dims, who are big government proponents and favor never ending foreign military intervention.
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