Sunday, 22 February 2026

Was Franklin D Roosevelt the father of the neo-cons?

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Was Franklin D Roosevelt the father of the neo-cons? His predecessor Hebert Hoover in his memoir "Freedom Betrayed" (published 2011) said Britain and France made a mistake in going to war with Germany and accused Roosevelt of provoking the attack on Pearl Harbor. Chamberlain said the Americans were the reason he went to war with Germany. 

FDR created the American empire that we have today, asset stripping the British empire in the process. The first neo-cons renounced Trotskyism to become New Dealers. and were admirers of FDR. On the other hand, FDR's focus was on defeating the Axis and he allowed Stalin (whom he viewed almost benignly, for example at the Tehran and Yalta conferences, very unlike the Edwardian imperialist Churchill) to capture Eastern Europe, China and North Korea.

Like the neo-cons, Roosevelt was very keen on a Jewish homeland but failed to convince the King of Saudi Arabia that it should be in Arabia. The King suggested not unreasonably that it should be carved out of Germany.

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