Dick Cheney always seemed reliably conservative to me. He and Rumsfeld were on the right side of Bush, with Powell and Rice on the left. Conservative and isolationist are not the same thing. Rand’s isolationism is very much a stock libertarian viewpoint and has nothing to do with conservatism in the foreign policy arena as exemplified by Ronald Reagan.
when did Reagan start a war based on faulty intelligence, for which he had no exit strategy, nor plan to pay for it?
Nicely stated— thank you.
Supporting homosexualizing the military and the homosexual agenda in general shows a lack of understanding of all things conservative.
He can be on the right side of many issues or situations, but fundamentally he isn't so deeply conservative.
He and Rumsfeld are NeoCons while Powell and Rice are Realists.
GOP presidents usually appoint NeoCons to SecDef and Realists to SecState and NSA.
Dem presidents usually appoint Realists to SecDef and NSA and Liberal Interventionists to SecState.
The problem is that globalism is a star issue for the big government statists.