And the founding fathers weren’t isolationists! Nor were they idiots. Free trade for the sake of free trade is idiocy. How have you folks been so easily convinced that those who want better trade deals are isolationists? I am willing to trade with China or anyone else but I am unwilling to allow them to cheat and ignorantly stand by and defend it as "free trade".
The 800 pound gorilla in foreign affairs that few are discussing is the renewed danger from Russia and China. For all the rhetoric about Ahmadinejad, Assad, bin Laden, etc., they would not have been capable of their military, nuclear, and even terrorist activities without the active assistance of the old Communist powers and their allies in Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela. In their own way, those conservatives who talk about an endless war against terrorism and focus only on Islamofascism are as myopic as the liberals who favor Marxist-led international organizations over our own interests and the libertarians who believe that if the U.S. withdrew to its own shores, an epoch of world harmony would ensue.
Duncan Hunter is to my knowledge the most realistic of the Presidential candidates with respect to foreign policy and military affairs.