Peter King is a statist.
Peter King is a NeoCon and this is a battle between the NeoCons and the isolationists.
The battle began on May 22 when the Senate foreign relations committee held a vote on whether or not to intervene in Syria.
19 votes made up of dems and pubs to intervene in Syria. There were 3 votes opposed to intervening. That was Rand Paul the isolationist plus 2 antiwar pacifist democrats. Then, not long after that, those 3 were joined by isolationist Mike Lee to introduce legislation opposing intervention.
You need to understand, it is very common for rightwing isolationists to share the same foreign policy position as the anti war pacifist democrats.
Or, as they used to say in previous times: when it came to foreign policy, there wasn't much difference between Ron Paul and Dennis Kuccinich.