Noninterventionists Never Win Debates
9th March 2022
I had hoped the lessons of how misguided conventional “wisdom” had led US policymakers into a disastrous foreign policy would be heeded, that policymakers would now consider more contrarian views aimed at avoiding costly overseas entanglements.
Yet here we are again. The foreign policy consensus in Washington is evolving in an interventionist direction, with Republicans and Democrats, liberal internationalists and neoconservatives alike, developing a new dogma that obligates the US to divert its military power and economic resources to contain and even fight two global powers, Russia and China, that supposedly threaten US national interests and values. Even daring to question this new dictum — which unified pundits repeat nonstop, like parrots on crack — will have you branded by the masses as betraying the very legacy of the Founding Fathers.
The People of the Crust, especially those who get a government paycheck, are by nature interfering busybodies. They are interfering busybodies domestically and interfering busybodies internationally. There is no area of life in which they refrain from sticking their noses, as they believe they have a God-given right to do.