cheuer's views on Israel are not surprising given his politics. He is an old-fashioned Republican who scorns promoting democracy overseas. Speaking at the CFR, Scheuer called President Bush's State of the Union address "warmed-up Wilsonianism", which is not a compliment as he described Woodrow Wilson in Imperial Hubris as a "bloody-handed fantasist." Responding to a questioner at the same event who asked if killing terrorist enemies would not simply create more enemies, Scheuer replied that "My books are pretty nationalist, ma'am. I don't much care." Indeed, Scheuer is so "nationalist" that he has recently written for LewRockwell.com, a neoconfederate, isolationist website that vilifies President Abraham Lincoln.
1. There is nothing traditional Republican about paleo-Confederates. That is traditional Southern Democrat positioning, not that of Republicans.
2. Knee-jerk isolationism is not Nationalist. It is not a sign of love of country but of rejection of the world. It is not prideful, but scornful and conspiratorial.
President Bush's Wilsonian lunacy that the the Arab world can be demoicratized can be condemned by non-isolationists. The Jacobin-Wilsonian creed of aggressive democracy fails to take into account culture, tradition, and values. It is exactly what American conservative-liberalism has always opposed from Washington Adams and Hamilton onwards.
However a true nationalist recognizes threats to America. In a clash of civilizaitons, we must protect America and outposts of Western civilization. Scheuer's appeasement does neither. It is the sublimation of moral cowardice by the acceptance of the enemies viewpoint.