{"id":1996259,"date":"2023-08-10T05:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usually-isolationists-arent-just-bad-on-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T05:07:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T09:07:41","slug":"usually-isolationists-arent-just-bad-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usually-isolationists-arent-just-bad-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolationists often fail in foreign policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusually-isolationists-arent-just-bad-on-foreign-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Usually, Isolationists Aren't Just Bad on Foreign Policy\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/biden-signs-china-investment-ban-republicans-call-riddled-with-loopholes\" data-post-url id=\"print-1780386\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>The recent \u2063cases of Richard Hanania and Pedro Gonzalez are a case in point<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>          Richard Hanania and \u2062Pedro\u200d Gonzalez<br \/>\n      \u200b \u2062<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Richard Hanania\u200c is a rising &#8220;scholar&#8221; and journalist hot on the libertarian right.\u200d He has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhanania.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">popular Substack<\/a>, a podcast, and a handful of academic affiliations, including as a visiting professor at the \u2064University of Texas at Austin&#8217;s Salem\u2062 Center and as a fellow with the Koch-funded Defense Priorities, which argues for American military retrenchment.<\/p>\n<p>Hanania doesn&#8217;t like &#8220;the neocons.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhanania.com\/p\/new-book-public-choice-theory-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> neocons like Doug Feith and Paul Wolfowitz got George W. Bush to invade Iraq and\u200b &#8220;didn&#8217;t care about the consequences.&#8221; He can&#8217;t understand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHanania\/status\/1493296595227475968?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">why neocons<\/a> would cheer black performers at a Super\u200c Bowl halftime show. Responding\u2064 to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/progressives-push-biden-to-tap-foreign-policy-experts-with-deep-koch-soros-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on the list of foreign \u200dpolicy hands recommended to the Biden administration by a rogue&#8217;s gallery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usually-isolationists-arent-just-bad-on-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"Isolationists often fail in foreign policy.\">left-wing foreign policy groups<\/a>, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHanania\/status\/1340107549266169856?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>: &#8220;I hope this is \u200creal \u200band not just \u2062dumb Neo-con [sic] propaganda.&#8221; (It \u200dwas a <i>Free Beacon <\/i>report; of course it was real.)<\/p>\n<p>On the road to his current life as a well-heeled libertarian, thinking big thoughts along the lines of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardHanania\/status\/1509982267300466690?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin has support<\/a>&#8221; because &#8220;a \u200dlot of his arguments actually\u200c make sense,&#8221; a <i>HuffPost<\/i> report last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> that, a decade ago, Hanania spent a lot of time on \u2063white \u200cnationalist websites like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Occidental Observer<\/a> arguing in favor of eugenics and\u200c trying \u200dto \u200bsolve for the fact that Hispanic \u200bpeople &#8220;don&#8217;t have the requisite IQ to be a productive part of a first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-rich-countries-should-be-eating-100-synthetic-beef\/\" title=\"Bill Gates: Rich Countries Should Be Eating 100% Synthetic Beef\">world nation<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s been caught, Hanania,\u200d like the right<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-supernature-ricky-gervais-defends-comedy-from-leftist-spinsters\/\" title=\"In \u2018SuperNature,\u2019 Ricky Gervais Defends Comedy From Leftist Spinsters\">-wing provocateur<\/a>, Ron DeSantis hype boy, and neocon-hater Pedro Gonzalez, says he has\u2063 grown out of his reductive and \u200dracist world \u2063view. \u200bGonzalez, for\u200b his \u200cpart, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/in-private-messages-desantis-ally-pedro-gonzalez-argues-nancy-pelosi-is-jewish-and-faults-trump-for-condemning-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the <i>Free Beacon<\/i><\/a>  that becoming a father made him snap out of his anti-Semitic beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Hanania protests that the sort \u2063of journalism to which he was subject is &#8220;not about informing the reader, or trying to bring understanding about something \u200chappening in the world. The entire journalistic endeavor revolves around the goal of &#8216;unpersoning.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Au contraire. The\u200c Hanania fracas, and the Gonzalez episode that preceded it, are informative reports and useful reminders that\u2064 isolationist foreign policy views\u2063 usually go \u2064hand in hand with repellent racial and ethnic views. Charles\u2062 Lindbergh didn&#8217;t just\u2064 advocate against American involvement in World\u200d War\u200d II,\u2062 he accused the Jews \u2064of pushing the country into war. Pat Buchanan didn&#8217;t just warn against &#8220;imperial overstretch&#8221; and describe World War II as an &#8220;unnecessary war,&#8221; he inveighed against Israel&#8217;s &#8220;amen corner&#8221; in the United States. And David\u2062 Duke endorsed Tulsi Gabbard for president in 2020, arguing that\u2064 she\u2063 was &#8220;a candidate who will actually put America First rather than Israel First!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Hanania&#8217;s apology,\u200b here&#8217;s hoping it \u200bwas sincere, not some dumb white supremacist propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hanania and Pedro Gonzalez exemplify the recent cases. Hanania, a rising libertarian scholar and journalist, boasts a popular Substack, podcast, and academic affiliations, including a visiting professorship at the University of Texas. 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