It's not too surprising that Styx hates Henry Kissinger: by Styx's lights, Kissinger was one of the original warmongering neocons. If you're not sure what a "neocon" is, it's a neoconservative, i.e. someone who cleaves to a globalist economic and political platform (to wit: farm out jobs to foreign countries for the cheap labor—something Republicans were heavily into during the 80s and 90s), and who believes that nondemocratic foreign countries are filled with people yearning for American-style democracy, which we ought to bring to them—by force if necessary. Neocon fingerprints were all over the Iraq War, for example: the idea, which took a while to articulate, was that we'd topple the Iraqi government and start a "democracyquake" in the Middle East (he's dead now, and his blog no longer exists, but read Steven Den Beste on this topic; I have a post quoting his version of the Iraq-war rationale here, and you'll see my description of the neocon position is spot-on)—an idea I was vehemently against at the time, causing tension between me and some good friends who were pro-war (some have changed their stance over the years). If you're a good MAGA Trumpian like Styx, then you probably also hate neocons and prefer diplomacy to war.
Friday, December 01, 2023
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