Are “foreign policy elites” incompetent, or might they have another motive than what is commonly believed?  The foreign policy establishment is made up of individuals who produce no product that anyone in a free market would want to buy, so they must rely on the generosity of benefactors for their livings.  Those benefactors, be they governments or businesses that receive money from governments, have their own agendas, and those agendas have nothing to do with the average American citizen, other than to get into his pockets.

Here we read that “foreign policy elites” have advocated one disaster after another, and don’t want to work with a potential president who has openly criticized the results of their decisions and advocacy.  But if they are so obviously incompetent, then why are they still listened to?

Perhaps the people who pay their salaries don’t view them as incompetent or the results of their ideas as negative.  Some clues from today’s news:

Could money play a role in foreign policy, or is it all based on good old American goodness of intention?

Do “foreign policy elites” in the government view their constituents as the American people, or a small, powerful sliver of the American (and other) people?

Another question comes to mind:  why the obsession with Iran, and the protection of Saudi Arabia, which is a much more dangerous and destabilizing force than Iran could ever dream of being?  How many of the “foreign policy elite” are on the Saudi payroll, and how many are on the Iranian payroll?