NeoCon Foreign Policy Fundamentals, Explained

Well this will be today's version of it, at least.

Back in the good old days, Self-Important, Self-Thinking Clever people would be sitting around in the capital city, enjoying the fruits of their ancestors' crimes (if not their own) and one would bring up the topic of some
strange exotic land,
that had (un or under exploited) RESOURCES.

And the discussion would quickly move to the fact that the Self-Important, Self-Thinking Clever people had ships with guns and the ability to Correct this Crime Against God and Nature, that those resources were not being properly exploited.


Skip to 2005.

Nowadays we have Self-Important, Self-Thinking Clever people who sit around OUR capital thinking about how there are
strange exotic lands,
which are not Democracies,
and the lack of such has not been properly exploited.

So the modern version of the Self-Important, Self-Thinking Clever people think that they have ships with guns, and aircraft too, and that it would be a crime against God and Nature, that the lack of Democracy in such a place was not exploited.

And if the place happens to have exploitable resources, so much the better (Wink, Wink. Nudge, Nudge. Say no more . . . saaaaaay noooo more!)