{"id":749,"date":"2014-10-28T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-10-28T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:01:09","slug":"todays-lunatic-foreign-policy-lewrockwell-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Lunatic Foreign Policy \u2013 LewRockwell.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;\">The argument for imperialism has always been two-edged, what the great Old Rightist Garet Garrett called (in his classic The People\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2014\/10\/dan-sanchez\/todays-lunatic-foreign-policy\/\">Today\u2019s Lunatic Foreign Policy \u2013 LewRockwell.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;\">In 1990, Murray Rothbard clearly identified the earliest signs of the ultimately successful decade-long push by the neocons to replace their dearly missed Cold War with a global, imperialist,\u00a0and permanent\u00a0War on Islamic fundamentalism and for \u201cDemocracy.\u201d He wrote in his April 1990 column \u201cThe Post-Cold War World: Whither U.S. Foreign Policy\u201d (which can be found in the collection\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; color: #1c1ca5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1480141747\/ref=as_sl_pd_tf_lc?tag=lewrockwell&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1480141747&amp;adid=0HG27763R2CYN9T24P7G&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F%3Fpost_type%3Darticle%26p%3D516684%26preview%3Dtrue\"><em style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The Irrepressible Rothbard<\/em><\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;\">\u201cBut if the Cold War died in the Communist collapse of 1989, what can the ruling conservative-liberal Establishment come up with to justify the policy of massive intervention by the U.S. everywhere on the globe? In short, what cloak can the Establishment now find to mask and vindicate the continuance of U.S. imperialism? With their perks and their power at stake, the Court apologists for imperialism have been quick to offer excuses and alternatives, even if they don\u2019t always hang together. Perhaps the feeling is that one of them may stick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;\">The argument for imperialism has always been two-edged, what the great Old Rightist Garet Garrett called (in his classic The People\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;\">Pottage) \u201ca complex of fear and vaunting.\u201d Fear means alleged threats to American interests and the American people. To replace the Soviet-international Communist threat, three candidates have been offered by various Establishment pundits. (\u2026) [Rothbard here offers international narco-terrorism and reunified Germany as the first two potential bogeymen.]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The argument for imperialism has always been two-edged, what the great Old Rightist Garet Garrett called (in his classic The People\u2019sToday\u2019s Lunatic Foreign Policy \u2013 LewRockwell.com. In 1990, Murray Rothbard clearly identified the earliest signs of the ultimately successful decade-long push by the neocons to replace their dearly missed Cold War with a global, imperialist,\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[149,326,545,561,562],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cold-war","tag-foreign-policy","tag-murray-rothbard","tag-neocons","tag-neoconservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}