Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-13-2020, 01:11 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't know, the Panama Canal (an old Neo Con project as I see it that proved to be valuable down the road for America and the world for that matter) came in handy during World War II.

Agreed the canal was a good move at the time.

Still, the Neo cons have been much reduced in influence since the Middle East wars started getting ugly. The idea of flexing our military power and Neo colonialism is far less popular. It is recognized that the attempt destabilized the Middle East, and that while we are very good at conventional war, the Pentagon is right that it takes many more boots on the ground than it is expedient to field to win an insurgency. While the Middle Eastern wars were not crisis wars for us, we seem to have gained the usual war aversion that is usually picked up in a crisis. The ugliness of the Iraq war is in living memory. Proxy war gives the advantage to the locals backed by an external power.

I see the Neo cons as a faded force.