Isn't he a neocon? Their intellectual paternity, it has been pointed out, is the old Trotskyite movement. Internationalist, globalist, antinationalist, anticapitalist, "social progressive".... but with a defense policy, and a yen to use U.S. power to project the globalist dream.
Very closely subparallel to the big-government Republican/Hamiltonian dream. Lincoln always thought the really bad thing about slavery was that it gave the American moral exemplar a black eye. It scandalized our national(ist) propaganda. It would be an interesting ticket, to listen to Harry Jaffa and, say, Calvin Trillin discuss whether Abraham Lincoln would have gazed with favor on the idea of exporting U.S. trade and politics on the deck of a gunboat to the benighted realms of the Old World. Which is what the Clintonistas like Maddy Albright and the neocons like Dick Cheney (although I think he's a National Greatness Republican, come to think of it) and Paul Wolfowitz have essentially been trying to do.
Bump. Agreed. Wolfowitz, and the whole crowd at Goldman Sachs are on board with that.
...discuss whether Abraham Lincoln would have gazed with favor on the idea of exporting U.S. trade and politics on the deck of a gunboat to the benighted realms of the Old World.
No way of knowing. He seemed to be pretty dedicated during his times, of course, to keeping Old World manipulative influence out of the New.
As for trade, he was a dedicated mercantilist, U.S.-First-industrialist. [ Some in he Von Mises crowd go so far as to allude to this as an alternate explanation for the Civil War. ]