{"id":33714,"date":"2016-03-16T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=33714"},"modified":"2016-03-16T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:20:58","slug":"a-rejection-of-neocon-foreign-policy-american-military-members-prefer-trump-and-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=33714","title":{"rendered":"A REJECTION OF NEOCON FOREIGN POLICY \u2013 AMERICAN MILITARY MEMBERS PREFER TRUMP AND SANDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The two biggest establishment neocons when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio, have virtually zero support.<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-media\">\n<div class=\"article-featured-image\"><a title=\"A Rejection of Neocon Foreign Policy \u2013 American Military Members Prefer Trump and Sanders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/a-rejection-of-neocon-foreign-policy-american-military-members-prefer-trump-and-sanders\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"landscape thumbnail full\" src=\"http:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hillary-clinton-war.jpg\" alt=\"A Rejection of Neocon Foreign Policy \u2013 American Military Members Prefer Trump and Sanders\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<article><strong><em>Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has said of the upcoming Concert for Valor:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe post-9\/11 years have brought us the longest period of sustained warfare in our nation\u2019s history. The less than one percent of Americans who volunteered to serve during this time have afforded the rest of us remarkable freedoms \u2014 but that freedom comes with a responsibility to understand their sacrifice, to honor them, and to appreciate the skills and experience they offer when they return home.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It was crafty of Schultz to redirect that famed 1% label from the ultra rich, represented by CEOs like him, onto our \u201cheroes.\u201d At the concert, I hope Schultz has a chance to get more specific about those \u201cremarkable freedoms.\u201d Will he mention that the U.S. has the\u00a0highest per capita\u00a0prison population on the planet?\u00a0 Does he include among those remarkable freedoms the guarantee that dogs, Tasers, tear gas, and riot police will be sent after you if you stay out past dark\u00a0protesting\u00a0the killing of an unarmed Black teenager by a representative of this country\u2019s\u00a0increasingly militarized\u00a0police? Will the freedom to be too big to fail and so to have the right to melt down the economy and\u00a0walk away\u00a0without going to prison \u2014 as Jamie Dimon, the CEO of Chase,\u00a0did\u00a0\u2013 be mentioned? Do these remarkable freedoms include having every American phone call and email recorded and\u00a0stored away\u00a0by the NSA?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From the post:\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cStop Thanking Me for My Service\u201d \u2013 Former U.S. Army Ranger Blasts American Foreign Policy and The Corporate State\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/10\/28\/formerstop-thanking-me-for-my-service-u-s-army-ranger-blasts-american-foreign-policy-and-the-corporate-state\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cStop Thanking Me for My Service\u201d \u2013 Former U.S. Army Ranger Blasts American Foreign Policy and The Corporate State<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. presidential campaign in 2016 thus far has exhibited\u00a0a dramatic and much needed public rejection of the status quo, aka \u201cthe establishment.\u201d While a majority\u00a0of the commentary has been\u00a0justifiably\u00a0focused on\u00a0anger about the economy and how a smaller and smaller group of \u201cinsiders\u201d have systematically accumulated more and more wealth via parasitic rent-seeking behavior, there\u2019s another very important repudiation occurring. <strong>A total rejection of neocon, interventionist foreign policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Longtime readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg will be under no illusions about\u00a0the fact that the Obama administration has represented a perfect continuation of the George W. Bush foreign policy doctrine, albeit with a more sleek\u00a0marketing approach to placate\u00a0the conscience of willfully ignorant fake liberals. Well the blowback from this\u00a0one party foreign policy approach has arrived, with its evidence appearing\u00a0in the form of military support of <strong>both<\/strong> Trump and Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/election\/2016\/03\/14\/military-times-election-survey-donald-trump-bernie-sanders\/81767560\/\">the <em>Military\u00a0Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In an exclusive survey of American military personnel, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders emerged as active-duty service members\u2019 top choices to become the next commander in chief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Republican front runner Trump was the most popular candidate in a subscriber poll that closed Sunday,\u00a0with 27 percent saying they would back the business mogul if the election were held tomorrow. Sanders, the independent Vermont senator, was a close second at 22 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The data also suggest that military personnel have not been dissuaded by political\u00a0rivals\u00a0who contend Trump and Sanders have weak foreign policy credentials and don\u2019t have recognized experts as\u00a0national security advisers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who has made national security issues one of the centerpieces of his campaign, was nearly last in the Military Times survey, with only about 9 percent of candidates favoring him.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now here\u2019s a graphic of the totals:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32253\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-15-at-9.27.58-AM-1024x851.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" srcset=\"\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-15-at-9.27.58-AM-300x249.jpg 300w, \/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-15-at-9.27.58-AM-768x638.jpg 768w, \/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-15-at-9.27.58-AM-1024x851.jpg 1024w, \/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-15-at-9.27.58-AM.jpg 1110w\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-15 at 9.27.58 AM\" width=\"449\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first thing that catches your eye is that the two biggest establishment neocons when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio, have virtually zero support. While\u00a0Trump sits in the top spot, this isn\u2019t totally surprising given his campaign rhetoric advocating for both a military buildup as well as\u00a0a more circumspect approach\u00a0when it comes to interventionism. That said, what\u00a0is\u00a0downright shocking is\u00a0how Bernie Sanders occupies a close second to Trump while absolutely crushing Hillary Clinton. Since the\u00a0U.S. military is not known for being a bunch of socialist hippies, there\u2019s something extremely significant going on here, and <strong>that something is a rejection of neocon interventionist foreign policy by the U.S. military.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S.\u00a0establishment can either fade away quietly or it can be tossed away kicking and screaming, but go it will.\u00a0From all ends of the political\u00a0spectrum, the American public has had enough and is beginning to forcefully reject\u00a0the corrupt and criminal status quo. It can\u2019t happen soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/a-rejection-of-neocon-foreign-policy-american-military-members-prefer-trump-and-sanders\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/a-rejection-of-neocon-foreign-policy-american-military-members-prefer-trump-and-sanders\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two biggest establishment neocons when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio, have virtually zero support. Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkrieg Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has said of the upcoming Concert for Valor: \u201cThe post-9\/11 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=33714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}