The State Department is notoriously leftist and so
is the foreign policy establishment in general. And
the basic tenet of American liberalism is American
self-hatred. Many conservatives have pointed out the
odd fact that American foreign policy is considered
legitimate only if it does not serve American interests,
but that is the inevitable result of its being based
on self-hate.
So "blame America first" is one foundation of American
policy planning. "Blame whites" is even more fundamental
to the foreign policy of all white majority countries.
A statement of morality in our age is incomplete if
it doesn't include a condemnation of Americans and
whites.
This leads to a truly bizarre idea of what "legitimate
concerns" are for America abroad.
In the sane world, you have no right to interfere
with what another country is doing unless it affects
your own interests.
When the USSR insisted that Communism should be imposed
on everybody, for their own good, they were generally
considered to be wrong, even by other leftist countries.
In fact, for one country to impose what it thinks
is best on another has a name. It is called colonialism.
But if your foreign policy and your armed forces
are not aimed at forcing them to do what you think
is best for them, what must your foreign policy be
based on? In other words, what is there in a foreign
land that is really my business?
Liberals say my only legitimate business in other
countries is doing what they consider best for those
countries. The difference between that and outright
imperialism is semantics, and tortured semantics at
that.
The first thing liberals and respectable conservatives
agree on is that our Middle Eastern policy should
NEVER concentrate on the oil supply. In fact, the
one charge liberals make about Middle East activities
by the United States is that "It's all about oil."
As soon as liberals say "It's all about oil" conservatives
go into their standard grovel.
But back in the world of sanity, oil is about the
only reason we have any right to interfere in Middle
Eastern affairs. Their oil is, in every sense of the
word, our business. Nothing from that part of the
world has the direct effect on us that the supply
and price of oil does.
So everybody agrees that our policy there must be
imposing what we think is best, not assuring our supply
of oil. Yet if I put it in those words, liberals would
deny it fiercely. They say that what they want to
enforce is not imperialism. It is Goodness.
No imperialists, Communist or colonial, ever said
anything else. All colonials and all totalitarians
just want what is best for you.
But if you don't want to decide what is best for
other countries and enforce it, there is only one
other possible guide to go by. This is the same guide
free societies use in everyday life. In a free society,
as in a free world, your right to interfere is limited
to your interests.
I normally have no right to force you to do anything
unless what you are doing might harm me. That's the
first rule of freedom. But if I hate myself, I cannot
apply this rule. That is why people who hate themselves
are so often dangerous. Self-hatred is a mental illness
which makes it impossible for people to deal with
each other rationally.
The pathology of self-hatred is no healthier in international
affairs.
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