[GunRunner]

We simply do not have the option of bringing troops home and retreating to within our borders unless you want to fight radical Islam here.

Oh great. I'm so thrilled that we'll still be sending our young men and women overseas to prop up dictatorships and support more theocracies by the time I'm an old man. I'm sure the Founders envisioned perpetual foreign wars.

West faces ‘decades’ of conflict in N Africa

I'm sure there's an ideology to describe perpetual war on foreign shores, but it sure as sh*t ain't conservatism.

[montanajoe]

We are at war with an enemy determined to win. They attacked us and will continue to attack us until we are dead or they are dead.

I know most people in the United States simply can not grasp that simple fact. The ideology describing opposition to “foreign Wars” is Libertarianism and Liberalism. Conservatism puts the survival of the nation first recognizing if we lose the war after being attacked nothing else matters.

The Libertarians may be able to take over the GOP and call themselves conservatives but they will be Republicans not conservatives like much of the GOP today. I could care less as I'm not a Republican, I'm a Conservative.

But if this nation is to survive and eventually win this war it will be on the backs of clear eyed Conservatives who see the world as it is and not how they wish it to be...