Trump Calls Out the Destructive Lies of the Bush/Cheney NeoCon Age

One of my biggest life regrets is that I bought into the Bush/Cheney neocon lies that the United States could bring peace to the Middle East by forcing regime change in a series of countries there and engaging in what they called “nation building.” For this terrible error in judgment, I apologize to my readers over the years.

This fatal conceit by the Bush/Cheney neocon cabal turned into a decades-long catastrophe that wrought more havoc across that part of the world than the nations themselves had ever done to one another. The graft and corruption that era spawned also set the U.S. on a debt-spiraling course that still threatens to render the most powerful nation on earth insolvent unless congress can be convinced to finally, at long last do its job.

Trump’s speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday became, as Trump speeches tend to do, a stemwinder that bounces across many topics. That said, it was without question a historic speech during which the American President laid out his vision for a revised world order in which the U.S. maintains a global security presence but ceases to serve as the world’s piggy bank.

But perhaps the most powerful 94 seconds of it appears in the clip below.