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(LifeSiteNews) — A little-reported speech given by J.D. Vance in May has been largely overlooked by the mainstream media. It has provoked panic and outrage in the neoconservative faction.
Why? Not only has Vance described the last forty years of U.S. foreign policy as “a disaster” – he said it had resulted in the extermination of Christians.
“Why don’t we stop genociding historical Christian communities?” he asked, explaining how “traditional neoconservative foreign policy keeps on leading to the genocide of Christians.”
“What a Foreign Policy For the Middle Class Looks Like: Realism and Restraint Amid Global Conflict” was the title of a remarkable case against 40 years of Zionist-backed regime change wars of “liberal intervention,” which Vance says have not spread democracy, but have come at enormous cost to the American people and resulted in the mass extermination of Christians.
“Maybe because we’re careless, maybe it’s purely accidental, but we keep on leading to the death of old Christian communities all over the world,” he told the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, in an event sponsored by the diplomatic realists at The American Conservative.
Speaking of the war in Iraq, which has “handed regional dominance to Iran,” he said, “we also precipitated the genocide of one of the oldest Christian communities in the entire world.”
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Echoing the remarks of Donald Trump, who said the reason given to the American people for the war in Iraq was “a lie.” Vance stated that given the results, “We need to look at our foreign policy decisions.”
He explained, “If George W. Bush had stood before the American people in 2003 and said, hey guys, we’re going to go to war not to eradicate weapons of mass destruction or to spread democracy, we’re going to go to war to create a regional proxy for Iran and to slaughter over a million historical Christians. Not that they will be slaughtered at our hands, but our actions will lead to the genocide of the historical Christian community.”
“I don’t think Americans would have supported it,” he continued.
It is astonishing to see a leading U.S. politician invoke Christianity to Americans in its defense, and not in support of another war which extinguishes it.
Vance’s remarks have shocked the neoconservative faction into “meltdown.” The neoconservative dominance of U.S. foreign policy has for decades led the United States into consecutive foreign wars.
None of these have delivered a victory, whether militarily or for the liberal democratic values they were launched to export. Instead, they have immiserated millions, changing their regimes – and ours in the West – into a permanent state of emergency.
With the mass migration these wars have driven from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and through a devastated Libya, regimes in the West are changing too – and not for the better.
Deeply repressive laws of censorship and digital mass surveillance are being undertaken in Britain and across Europe to contain rising public anger at the criminal chaos resulting from uncontrolled immigration. The E.U. chief commissioner has announced a “European Democracy Shield” to defend Europeans from the dangers of free speech.
A rising tide of threats, murder, child sexual exploitation, terrorism, and accusations of “two-tier policing” are seeing formerly liberal democracies like Britain resort to increasingly illiberal measures to crack down on public outrage.
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Matt Taibbi has warned of a “censorship-industrial complex” which sees Big Tech partner with the Deep State to silence critics across the U.S. and the West. The recent disappearance by algorithm of the failed assassination of President Trump by Google and Meta is a case in point for Americans.
We have been managed into chaos by a rules-based order who sold us these wars on the promise of spreading liberal democratic values and has delivered debt, destruction, and draconian moves toward digital tyranny.
The effects of this effort to export liberalism globally – which is what “globalism” is – has been to destroy law and order nationally and internationally. It is replacing homelands with homelessness, and the Christian way of life with death.
Regime change has come home, and it has imported the state of emergency into the West, that decades of “liberal intervention” has exported abroad. Liberal democracy under this regime is committing suicide. Vance provides a practical and realistic vision for a moral rebalancing of the international and domestic order.
Vance’s astonishing break with the orthodoxy of “boomer conservatism,” as his speech was introduced, includes a revision of the meaning of the U.S.-Israel alliance: “We have to sort of ask ourselves, what do we want out of our Israeli allies?”
No one in this position has asked that question of Israel in living memory. The fact that this obvious question is shocking shows the fact that obvious questions are shockingly absent from the national conversation.
Vance is very likely aware of another shockingly obvious question. Israel – whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a driving force behind all the preemptive wars of regime change – is itself no friend to Christianity in its birthplace.
What is the alliance with Israel delivering for Christianity in its most historic site of all?
For years, Church leaders in the Holy Land have warned that “Israel is persecuting Christianity to extinction.” In a systematic and state-sanctioned process of escalating hostility to Christianity, attacks on priests and the desecration of graves and holy sites have increased following the Israeli parliament’s 2018 passing of a nation-state law that insisted “Israel is a Jewish state.”
This removes legal privilege from all non-Jews – Muslims, Christians, and Druze alike. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem called on Catholics and all Christians to protest the new legislation.
Given the enormous power of the neoconservative lobby and that of its allies, it is exceptional for anyone at the top of the U.S. political establishment to speak in defense of Christianity and against the doctrine of “forever wars” which extinguishes it.
It is extremely hopeful for the world, in a time of crisis almost entirely precipitated by the recklessness of the liberal-global order, that its unquestioned alliance with an increasingly unstable Israel faces a realistic reappraisal. The doctrine of permanent war which partners this is set to be abandoned at last.
This is not simply the rebalancing argument of diplomatic realism. Vance says the destruction of Christianity is “a moral scandal.”
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“And I think,” he continues, “most Americans, given they’re part of the Christian majority, would actually agree with that.”
With the word “weird” now being weaponized against Vance, Trump, and their plan for a moral and realistic foreign policy, his remarks about the legacy of the old Republican guard are striking: “It’s sort of weird to me that no one, even though Republicans are theoretically the Christian conservative party, that no one makes this argument that traditional neoconservative foreign policy keeps on leading to the genocide of Christians.”
As Vance says, “Neoconservative foreign policy is strategically and morally stupid.”
It is also extremely expensive, with the Wall Street Journal reporting in 2021 that “the U.S. military spent $14 trillion during two decades of war” – only to lose those wars.
Who won? “Military contractors,” the WSJ said. The American people and the world have paid the price. The cost of this industry of death, counted in human life and universal degradation, continues to rise today, as the U.S. national debt surpasses $35 trillion.
Where is this foreign policy leading Americans?
The U.S. national debt is set to rise by $1 trillion more every 100 days, as America is poised to enter another war in the Middle East.
Vance’s vision for a new foreign policy is a paradigm shift for the U.S. He is the first person of his rank to count the human, financial, moral, and spiritual cost of forty years of mass destruction by design.
In 2021, Vance wrote of the “civilizational crisis” in America, as he pledged to rescue the American Dream from the nightmare its past politics have delivered.
If this is the new American conservatism then we should thank God for it. It is the deliverance from evil for which a world in strife is crying out.
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