Debating Nigerian Intervention And The Right's Future

Greer returns to TV

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In this week’s American Conservative column, I write about how neocons are exploiting MAGA sentiments to push for an intervention in Nigeria:

[A]dvocates found a powerful way to sell this intervention: Christian solidarity. Ordinary conservatives will pay attention if Christians are attacked for their faith in another part of the world. It’s understandable that they would be bothered by this and want it to end. It’s especially potent thanks to MAGA’s embrace of “Christian nationalism.” Intervention advocates know that a religiously-themed appeal will win over a base that is otherwise skeptical of foreign adventures.

But it violates the spirit of America First to pursue an African intervention on dubious grounds. The last thing we need is to create another quagmire in the Third World. Africa is a brutal place, and history shows we’re unlikely to solve the problem. We shouldn’t allow a suspicious exploitation of faith to dictate military action.

Read the rest here.

I also made my grand debut on Al Arabiya TV to debate Shabbos Kestenbaum on the future of the Right, Tucker Carlson, and conservative support for Israel.

You can watch the entertaining discussion below: