[elhombrelibre]

How would you define the neo-cons’ foreign policy position?

[Ben Ficklin]

To start, neocons say the US won the cold war, is the last remaining super power, so, the US is the world hegemon, and should not be meek about using our military strength to influence the world. At the point of a gun. Little regard for diplomacy. Would like to roll the State Dept into the defense dept and replace the Sec of State with a Undersecretary of Defense for Diplomacy.

Highly interventionist.

Idealists and big believer in humanitarianism, nation building, spreading democracy.

Unilateralists, opposed to multilateralism, which they see as weakness, or call multilateralism "leading from behind". Opposed to multilateral orgs like Nato and the UN saying that the only world order achievable is a hierarchy of nations.

Invade: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, anywhere, everywhere.