This is overblown.
The Republican party is still very much drifting into non-interventionist foreign policy territory. The insane rantings of Juan McLame and the clear blowback with regard to arming rebels in Libya, have poisoned the interventionist strand of Republicanism now on the wane.
Tom Cotton won with large conservative support primarily because he has been a thorn in Boehner’s side on many issues in the house, he’s solid on social issues, and he had a great chance of knocking off Mark Pryor.
In the senate, Cotton will be on the more conservative side of the 50/50 divide line of the Republican senators, likely more conservative than John Boozman.
There is not going to be a big foreign policy argument in the coming decade, regardless of what ISIS does. Everyone is worried about other things.
Disagree...maybe you’re correct for the Obola era, but 2 years from now everything will change in the foreign policy department.
As long as America’s crisis of confidence persists, we should stay far away from foreign intervention. A lot of people will get killed and money wasted for nothing.
I agree. In fact, I think it’s crap. The article is dripping with all the hacnkeyed phrases “colision course,” “extreme conservatives,” etc., that take the place of actual thinking and analysis. This article is the author’s wet dream of a Repulbican battle royale.
After watching how Iraq and Afghanistan were handled I’m reluctant to support those kind of efforts ever again. I’d rather we focus on maintaining the capabilities to smash our enemies and keep them from ever attacking us and less focus on fixing the middle east which its clear we will never fix. I think the idea of letting the people in the middle east own their problems and only getting involved when its a matter of things directly hurting our vital interests is a better approach.
Nation building sends the message that socialism is all fine when its to support a war but back home its not. We need to be more consistent. Diplomacy has failed in the Middle East and war has failed. I don’t think we should spend any more blood on lost causes especially given that we have a political reality that refuses to let our military fight wars to win them. The reason we aren’t still fighting Nazis today is because the Soviets went door to door executing them in Berlin. It wasn’t pretty but that dastardly deed accelerated the process as did dropping nukes on Japan. An enemy that does not believe you are fighting to win will never respect you and I’ll not support sending troops led by politically correct politicians who are as likely to see our troops as the enemy as those we fight.
We are up to our necks with foreign policy alligators, Russia, China, Islam, we need someone strong on national defense issues, not a surrender monkey, we can vote democrat for that.