Why Aren't the Neocons Pitbulling Over Venezuela?
Plus Jonah Goldberg's wrongheaded criticism of Albert Jay Nock
The perma-hawks have been kinda quiet on this one. Not all of 'em, but the chest-thumping Ares worshippers aren't drooling. I can't find a single neocon quote like this one.
Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.
That's always-neo Jonah Goldberg, writing about the need to beat some ass in Iraq in 2002.
But on Venezuela? He's opposed. So are other neocons, or they're at least muted.
I feel like Trump just put a line of cocaine in front of Hunter Biden and he passed.
Come on, neocons! Venezuela is a bleeding young girl in front of a pitbull. You oughtta be having troubles buttoning your trousers these days!
But no.
Why?
It could just be TDS: If Trump says "yes," they say "no," more Pavlovian than a drunk's drool when he hears the tshhh of a beer getting opened.
Or maybe the neocons don't want to see innocent civilians die or they oppose regime change or they don't want cheap oil.
Ha, just joking. I move on.
Here's my real speculation: Maybe CIA ops in Venezuela are going to be exposed, and if they're exposed, the disturbingly miasmic reach of the deep state's toxicity will be smelled by everyone.
Did voter fraud occur in 2020, and was it routed through Venezuelan servers? I honestly thought that allegation had been as thoroughly debunked as the idea that Covid originated in a lab. Fox paid hundreds of millions to settle a lawsuit by Dominion; Smartmatic's two billion dollar defamation suit is still going.
So what is pushing the neocons' mute button . . . or actually prompting them to oppose the war?
I sit befuddled, adjusting my tin foil hat as I sit and think.
Bonus: Goldberg on Nock
Goldberg, btw, apparently doesn't like the term "neoconservative." He says it's become a vague slur.
So has "groomer."
Goldberg also once wrote a feature-length essay about why Albert Jay Nock sucks. The gist? Nock wasn't interventionist enough: he just wanted people to leave one another alone (which was also Dorothy Day's ultimate philosophy . . . and, in your humble scribe's opinion, one of the few reliable touchstones we must use as we make our way in this vale of tears).
Not obtrude on others? For neocons like Goldberg, that'd be like failing to rescue a two-year-old who's drowning in a shallow pond.
The thing that the Goldbergs don't realize is, they ought not have pushed the two-year-old in the pond in the first place, which is what the United States has been doing repeatedly over the past 100 years in its foreign policy.
Eric Scheske