Miles Parks

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So we're going to talk here about neoconservatism specifically in the context of foreign policy, which is how it is largely known in the US right now.

And it is largely remembered for its role in the George W. Bush era.

Now, during that time, neoconservatism is the ideology that.

sent the U.S.

into Iraq and kept the U.S.

there to try to build a democracy there.

The idea behind neoconservatism is not only that you go intervene in foreign countries, but also that you're trying to export American values like democracy, like free speech, like all of the

sort of bedrock things that we think of as being part of the USA.

So for example, former Vice President Dick Cheney is considered a leading voice from back then of neoconservatism.

And here he was talking in 2003, talking to CBS about why the US should go into Iraq.

He's not really talking there about we're doing this for us.