“On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered the most-remembered speech of his career. The oration’s resounding climax included several famous lines – that America ‘goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,’ for example, and that an America that aspired to world leadership, even in the name of noble ideas, would be led astray: ‘She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.’ Even as American foreign policy has warped in many of the ways Adams foresaw, it has been unable to bury his powerful words.” (-from the ‘John Quincy Adams Society’ website)
It is in this light that controversial issues like America’s foreign policy, the war in Ukraine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, globalism, a one world government, and significantly – Zionism and the neocon movement – are now being discussed. Complicating the discussion is the constant matter of definition and context.
“Narratives are built by removing history,” observes Salim Mansur, so as to “serve the interest of whoever you are advocating for.”
Not surprisingly, with the re-introduction of the relevant history into the narrative, one soon discovers that the narrative often changes radically, rarely serving the narrow interests of those promoting the original.
Narratives are also manufactured by changing definitions and manipulating language. For example, in the ongoing conversation that constantly requires a clarification of conflicting definitions, the neocon movement is neither ‘new’ nor ‘conservative’ but represents an attempt to establish a ‘one-world’ government at the expense of the sovereignty of nations.
Prepared by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the 1992 draft Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) was the source of ideas summarized in a report titled ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’ which essentially outlined a three pronged strategy to maintain America’s rule over the entire globe.
The first objective was to prevent the emergence of a rival superpower; the second, to safeguard US interests and promote American values; and the third, to ensure that the US be prepared to take unilateral action, thus removing it from within the framework of international law.
Or in other words, and in direct contrast to John Quincy Adams’ warning that America not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy, a unilateral decision was made to do the exact opposite. In so doing, the neocons are always creating crisis after crisis, so as to justify taking unilateral action against whatever imagined foe – from Russia to Covid – must be defeated.
Given the neocon objective of seeking ‘monsters to destroy,’ it seems Just Right that this agenda should itself be considered monstrous.
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