“Most progressive”? What does that mean, anyway, in this context?

John Kerry, the Most Progressive Pick for the State Department?

Apparently it means less neocon warmongering and more liberal-feminist meddling, state building, and global welfare.

Well, the first part is a good thing.

The rest is not.

I had no idea that Hillary had smuggled in such Lady Bountiful stuff under the ridiculous guise of national security.

That would be the liberal version of the breathtaking lie told by Cap Weinberger, Reagan's own proto-neocon, so many years ago that there is no place so remote and insignificant in all the world that the US does not have vital interests at stake there.

Quoting the article,

Clinton said in a 2011 interview, “We have placed women’s rights and responsibilities and human security at the center. [With] human security you can expand the concept to talk about ‘Do you have enough food?’ because that’s a security issue; ‘Do you have a safe place to live?’ because that’s a security issue.”

And that’s a reflection of what a progressive foreign policy is about, apparently.

Another revealing excerpt.

This is the author opining.

Yet if we want to normalize a foreign policy that combines military strength with collaboration relationships around the world to ensure citizens’ rights to security and voice in their respective governments, our best bet may be the older white guy.

And what if we don't?

Goody globo-meddling, a liberal culture war on a global scale, is the most resented kind of imperialist interference and has the least basis in actual American national interest.

Ever hear of blowback?

By the way, aid to the Contras made sense and actually worked.