Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

What is new in the ‘New Imperialism’ and in the global strategy of the Neo-Cons?

0
10 Posted

What is new in the ‘New Imperialism’ and in the global strategy of the Neo-Cons?

0
10

The Neo-Conservatives developed a geo-political paradigm, a ‘grand strategy’ couched in a language that is a fusion between reactionary demagogic nationalism and Christian fundamentalism. Alex Callinicos has called this ‘The Rhetoric of Conquest’. Today this populist style is common currency in the USA and typically utilises pre-Enlightenment, pre-modern forms of speech of which the Pilgrim Fathers would have been proud. World politics has become ‘The struggle between good and evil, the enemy is the ‘axis of evil’. There are ‘evil terrorists’ and ‘rogue states’. While at last year’s Republican Convention there were placards proclaiming George Bush was doing ‘God’s work’. Behind this demagogic populism lies a serious and dangerous politics not only for the peoples of Iraq in 2005, but the peoples of the world in the coming decades – if we allow them to get away with it. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, expresses the brutality of the Neo-Cons’ world-view. A strong advocate of t

Related Questions

Thanksgiving questions

*Sadly, we had to bring back ads too. Hopefully more targeted.