Since we are not only the most powerful country on earth but the most moral and ethical, it's only our natural, God-given right to boss the other countries around. There's no need for diplomacy. Diplomacy is for wimps and Democrats. The idea of Jimmy Carter sitting around the fire in his cardigan sweater and negotiating with the Egyptians is revolting to Ann Coulter. So says her book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" in which she also famously lambastes the "Jersey girls" for having so much fun over their husbands' deaths. Carter's efforts resulted in a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, but it was entirely the wrong approach. We should have laid it on the line to the Egyptians, and, if they didn't come around, invaded them militarily!
We don't negotiate with terrorists or anyone else. Our allies do what we tell them. Those who aren't our allies better do what we tell them or face the prospect of a military invasion. There is no need to negotiate. Talking is for girls. Let's all sit around the campfire, hold hands and sing "Cum Bay Ya."
The Neocon of the month is Paul Wolfowitz who famously said that our military excursion in Iraq would be paid for by Iraqi oil revenues. A trillion dollars later we are still in the process of taking over the Iraq oil fields. However, not to worry. Our good friends, the Chinese central bankers, are happy to loan us the money to cover not only the war in Iraq but massive tax cuts as well. Since we're the world's only superpower, the dollar is the world's reserve currency. Other countries have to pay for oil in dollars. So there! We can borrow as much as we want whenever we want. That's no problem.
The "Wolfowitz Doctrine" is a major part of Neocon philosophy.
Hardliners in the US administration around Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and their ideological godfather Richard Pearle, are using the fall-out from the New York and Washington attacks to rework the United States' understanding of state sovereignty in the developing world. The concerns with democracy and human rights that dominated foreign policy in the Clinton era never sat comfortably with right-wing Republican promotion of US interests to the exclusion of all else.
That's right, baby. We promote US interests to the exclusion of all else. What else is there? We're number 1. We need to act like it, and the other countries better take heed! If they give us too much backtalk, they just might get invaded!
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) represents the deep thinking that goes into Neocon philosophy. War is always preferable to peace. The war process is preferable to the peace process. We must win every war so long as we stay the course since we are the world's most powerful nation. Anything else is unthinkable. More can be accomplished through war than through peace. Peace is for wimps and Democrats.
Maybe love will win out in the long run. Since Wolfowitz, a married man, has been dating a Muslim woman, maybe he will mellow from his hawkish stance. You know. Make love, not war. Other critics have said his womanizing has come home to roost, but this does not prevent him from being one of the principal architects of Bush's preemptive strike doctrine and his obsession with democratizing the Middle East. After we kill the bad Muslims, then the good Muslims presumably including the woman he's dating, will probably have a better relationship with Israel.
