Miles Parks

We have some real fundamental reasons to protect the U.S.

going in there.

Yes, this administration did promote the idea of WMDs.

But when they were selling this idea, they said, no, this is also about human rights, as Cheney said there.

This is about building democracy there.

So that is what neoconservatism was.

Yeah.

So let's start with the end of the George W. Bush era, right?

By then, the view of what the U.S.

had done and was doing in Iraq was slipping.

People were just getting really sick of having U.S.

soldiers in Iraq, having sent them there and

thinking that they were going to improve things and get out.

Well, it turns out it was really hard to do that.

So even Republicans had soured on the U.S.

being involved in Iraq.

Now, it's not that neocons disappeared over the coming years, but they just got a little less loud.

And isolationists like former Texas Representative Ron Paul got a bit louder of a voice.

So fast forward to Trump.

Trump was considered a real rejection of neoconservatism because, as you heard him in that debate clip we heard at the top, he talked a lot about racism.