After dabbling with Wilsonian Progressive interventionism during the Bush years, Republicans are going back to their roots. A new poll shows a majority of Republicans now reject this ideology. They are going back to Reagan era peace through strength idea. Stay strong, fight if you have to and only if it’s in our national or economic interest.
In their first major presidential debate on June 13, the Republican candidates sketched out a cautious approach to U.S. global engagement that would represent a departure from the policies of the Bush administration. Yet their ideas are very much in tune with the evolving views of the GOP base.
In the Pew Research Center’s political typology survey, released May 4, majorities in every partisan group — including 55% of conservative Republicans — said the U.S. “should pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems here at home.”
America is broke and we can’t be the world’s policeman no more. We need to be out for ourselves and only support allies who are willing to defend themselves. If John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Bill Kristol don’t like it, let them form their opwn private army for Democracy spreading. We have shed enough blood and spent enough of our treasure. We should only fight to defend our national intersts or for economic gains.
Wars for Muslim democracy is not Conservative!
Tags: Bill Kristol, Interventionism, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Wilsonian Progressives
