President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the U.S. – Saudi investment forum at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
.@POTUS: “Far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice for their sins … It is God’s job to sit in judgment — my job to defend America and to promote the… pic.twitter.com/WN8iytQjgK
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In one brief speech to the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, President Trump may have completely upended decades of U.S. foreign policy, smashing the neocon philosophy to bits in the process. After excoriating Mark Levin, whom he calls a neocon, for his “anti-isolationist” stance in line with those of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton, Tom Woods writes:
On the neocon issue, Donald Trump himself recently said in Riyadh (emphasis mine below):
This great transformation has not come from Western interventionists…giving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs.
No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits, like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad, so many other cities.
Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves…developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies….
In the end, the so-called “nation-builders” wrecked far more nations than they built — and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.
We correctly assume the medical establishment is not being entirely truthful with us. If we haven’t yet, let’s extend that insight into the forbidden terrain of foreign policy, so that snake-oil salesmen who line their pockets as they sell us alluring promises while drowning us in debt don’t wind up producing still more Americans to mourn next Memorial Day.
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