Despite fears about the many negatives from a Donald Trump
presidency, one positive could be his shattering of the monopoly that
neocons and liberal hawks now hold over U.S. foreign policy, says Robert
Parry.
Americans and the world have valid reasons to worry about
Donald Trump’s presidency, given his lack of experience and his refusal
to recognize that his loss of the popular vote should moderate his
emerging domestic policies. But Trump also could do some good things.
Particularly,
Trump could break the death grip that neoconservatives and their
“liberal interventionist” tag-team partners now have locked around the
throat of U.S. foreign policy.
Trump owes little to these “regime change” advocates since nearly all
of them supported either other Republicans or his Democratic rival,
Hillary Clinton. And the few who backed Trump, such as John Bolton and
James Woolsey, have been largely passed over as Trump assembles his
foreign policy and national security teams by relying mostly on a
combination of outsiders and outcasts.
