The human predisposition to believe in a power outside the
self and outside the ordinary, leads some people to identify with and draw
strength from such power, however mythical it may be.
To satisfy that craving, individuals of the cultures that
had a glorious ancient past, tend to create myths rooted in the reality of
their past achievements. As to individuals of the cultures that live in the
glorious present, they tend to create myths rooted in the fiction of larger than
life figures that lived in the recent past. Aside from Ronald Reagan who is
almost universally accepted among Americans to have been a towering figure,
there are people who try to make Henry Jackson a towering figure, and create a
myth around what they believe was his approach to foreign policy.
Henry Jackson was a Democratic Congressman and Senator who
ran to be president of the United
States but never made it. He was so
ambitious he could not help but be opportunistic, jumping on every occasion to
advance his career. One opportunity he thought could do him a great deal of
good was the falling out that happened between the Jews who wanted to populate
Israel with new immigrants, and the Soviet Union that had a large number of
potential Jewish immigrants, but would not allow them to leave the country.
Thus, while the Jews were chanting: “Let my people go,”
Henry Jackson that had Jews on his staff – later identified to have been neocon
material – began to espouse a philosophy that combined the support for Israel's
agenda and hatred for the Soviet Union. In this sense, Henry Jackson and his
staff were the spiritual fathers of what later came to be known as
neoconservatism (neocon) despite the fact that the credit is given to Irving
Kristol who actually converted from liberalism to conservatism, and said so in
writing.
However, to this day, the reality remains that America never
developed a grass-root neocon following despite the fact that Jewish neocons
infiltrated and took over most of the nation's think tanks and media outlets.
Thus, the Jacksonian approach to foreign policy never took hold in mainstream America . This
is why a Henry Jackson Society developed in England
but not in America
where no one came forward to fund it.
A further discrediting of the neocon movement happened in America among the Jews who did not want to be
identified with the pro-Israel foreign policies that cost America tens of
thousands of lives and trillions of wasted dollars. For this reason, the
diehard neocons came up with a new strategy to assure their survival. They
circled around the young veterans of America 's recent wars and convinced
them that Henry Jackson had the right idea when he advocated a strong defense.
To make their point, they demagogued the renewed phenomenon of Russian
expansionism and the rising Muslim challenge.
Senator Tom Cotton, a veteran of the Iraq war, is
one that embraced this idea. A column was written about him and printed in the
Wall Street Journal. It came under the title: “A Foreign Policy for 'Jacksonian
America'” and the subtitle: “Sen. Tom Cotton has a worldview––even a
doctrine––that is hawkish and realistic, though tinged with idealism.” Authored
by Jason Willick, the column was published in the Journal on December 9, 2017.
Reading the column, it becomes clear that neither Willick
nor Cotton have any idea what the Jacksonian Philosophy of foreign policy
looked like, or where to find Jacksonian America today or in the past. That's
because there isn't one now, and there never was one. Those on the Henry
Jackson staff that shaped the neocon philosophy––which Jackson himself never
fully embraced––were none other than Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. They
ended on the staff of Dick Cheney in the George W. Bush Administration after
spending a decade organizing the scheme that launched the war that destroyed Iraq and now the Levant .
If Cotton or Willick had any inkling regarding that history, they would not
have produced the following passage:
“He [Cotton] believes that the lack of an organizing principle
for using American power created a divide between the foreign policy elites and
what Cotton calls Jacksonian America––heartland voters … Foreign policy must
command popular support, says he … Without the support of Jacksonian America,
the people who are going to cash checks written by elites in New York and
Washington, no foreign policy can be successful”.