{"id":342500,"date":"2018-01-05T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unhinged-the-war-partys-desperate-assault\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:05:47","slug":"unhinged-the-war-partys-desperate-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/unhinged-the-war-partys-desperate-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged: The War Party\u2019s Desperate Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0major\u2014perhaps only\u2014redeeming virtue of Donald\u2019s ersatz\u00a0campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America\u2019s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to\u00a0discard \u201cRegime Change\u201d as the core tenant of foreign\u00a0policy\u00a0in favor\u00a0of\u00a0an \u201cAmerica First\u201d approach to domestic security and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Those\u00a0eminently sensible\u00a0notions\u00a0struck the Deep State\u2019s raison d\u2019etre to the quick.\u00a0The fact is, there would be\u00a0no justification\u00a0for the\u00a0<em><strong>$800 billion<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>defense, intelligence and foreign aid apparatus on which the very prosperity of the Imperial City depends in the absence of\u00a0a large state-based enemy;\u00a0or, better still,\u00a0without\u00a0an\u00a0imperial foreign policy that is\u00a0implicitly designed to either bully or\u00a0remove recalcitrant\u00a0governments anywhere on the planet\u2014-whether or not\u00a0they have the intent or capacity to harm the US homeland.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not the half of it. Lurking not far\u00a0below the surface of the \u201cAmerica First\u201d slogan was the ghost of Senator\u00a0Robert Taft\u2019s profoundly correct understanding that free enterprise prosperity, minimal government and\u00a0maximum personal liberty were incompatible with a permanent, fiscally debilitating\u00a0Warfare State\u00a0leviathan designed to function as the world\u2019s\u00a0boots-&amp;-suits-on-the-ground hegemon.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Taft strongly opposed a\u00a0big peacetime navy, a large standing army with\u00a0forward stationing and rapid global deployment capacities and the proliferation of foreign treaties and aid\u00a0commitments.\u00a0To the contrary,\u00a0he reasoned that in the nuclear age\u00a0a US-based bomber and missile force of unquestioned striking capacity\u00a0would more than adequately protect the homeland from foreign military aggression, and at a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/david-stockman\/unhinged-part-2-the-war-partys-desperate-assault-on-america-first\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0major\u2014perhaps only\u2014redeeming virtue of Donald\u2019s ersatz\u00a0campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America\u2019s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to\u00a0discard \u201cRegime Change\u201d as the core tenant of foreign\u00a0policy\u00a0in favor\u00a0of\u00a0an \u201cAmerica First\u201d approach to domestic security and safety. Those\u00a0eminently sensible\u00a0notions\u00a0struck the Deep State\u2019s raison d\u2019etre to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}