I'm staunchly anti-abortion, but believe in federalism. In other words, throw Roe vs. Wade into the trash and let the states decide abortion (since the 10th amendment's enumeration clause forbids the federal government from doing anything not expressly stated in the constitution). So even though I hate abortion, I'd rather outlaw it at the state level than the federal level.
I'm also for strong defense, just not getting into a bunch of wars that don't involve us. If I had my way on Oct 2001 we would have been brutal against both Afghanistan and Pakistan (since they had at least as many tie-ins to Al Qaeda as Afghanistan), and their civilians would have been just as much fair games as ours were on Sep 11. How many would have to die? However many it took to make those nations surrender.
But then after the war we'd pull out of the area sans a few troops in a few of military bases there. Less deaths on both sides. Less restrictions of freedoms here at home (because the slay-the-infidel nations would have seen what happens when you attack us).
We went into Afghanistan and Iraq in order to crush Iran in the middle. Then Iran started insurgencies and Bush lost his nerve.