1. The ascension of Bolton is a good opportunity to revisit some popular misunderstandings about the neo-cons & Iraq War.
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2. There's an unfortunate tendency to see the neo-cons as the sole faction that drove the Iraq War. Since Bolton supported that war, he's sometimes labelled a neo-con
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3. Don't get me wrong: neo-cons are terrible on foreign policy & were on forefront of Iraq War. But they had important allies: the radical nationalists (Cheney, Bolton).
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4. GOP has 3 foreign policy factions: prudential realists (Scowcroft), neo-cons (Wolfowitz) & radical nationalists (Cheney & Bolton). With Iraq war, the neo-cons & radical nationalists teamed up to sideline realists.
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5. The radical nationalists are the least understood of the major GOP foreign policy factions. It's the tradition of James Burnham, Jesse Helms, & Bolton: raw assertion of USA power for sake of global hegemony with no pretext of democracy.
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6. More context for Bolton & how he fits into GOP history (and why this is bad news):https://newrepublic.com/article/147640/scarier-neoconserative-john-bolton-radical-nationalist …
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I think there's a distinction between 1st & 2nd generation neo-cons.
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