You get it! And even worse are those fake conservative neocons who want to keep wars going on BORROWED MONEY! Do these people give a damn about burdening the coming generations with Trillions in debt?
If you two are soooooooo worried about the cost of war in terms of $$$$$$,I would suggest that you turn your attentions to the much more massive cost of the welfare state: public edumakashun (indoctrination including Marxism, butt-kissing the Islamolunatics, paleopacifist weenyism, general cultural cowardice, gummint funded baby-killing, sexually perverted everything) housing, medical, make work, trade treason, etc.
No one could or would or did die to make the late spineless Neville Chamberlain or the US "isolationist" patheticos role models for actual conservatives.
Your side of what passes for an argument here died a very violent political death on December 7, 1941 and again on September 11, 2001. It has not been missed. At least the pre-WWII "isolationists" had the good grace to formally surrender on popular demand at a Chicago press conference on December 8, 1941, upon popular demand. Colonel McCormack, Charles Lindbergh, John Flynn and the "America First" Committee.
Our problem is not war itself but the tens of millions of chains imposed on our military to prevent speedy and total victory. There is an element in this country (Obozo and Hillary and the 1960s-70s Domesticong and their ilk) who cannot abide the idea that we would ever want to destroy any enemy after Hitler was destroyed. Why, we were then allies of Stalin himself! From their point of view, that was unsurpassable glory. CONSERVATIVES, real conservatives, know better and do not ally themselves in pacifistic nonsense with our country's domestic enemies.
The actual conservative position is: War whenever genuinely necessary but TOTAL war. Massive, swift, relentless to the total destruction of whatever enemy made the war necessary. No nation building. No occupation. Take as much of the enemy's assets as necessary to pay every penny of expense (including care of injured military and pensions). Any repetition of enemy misbehavior: Hit them twice as hard. Repeat as necessary. What would Patton do? Especially if not restrained by Eisenhower's desire to play politician to satisfy Stalin and the vainglorious Brits like Montgomery.
Above all: Get in, win massively, memorably and quickly, and get the hell out! If the world or anyone in it does not like it, toooooo damn bad!
Also get out of the UN and any other "alliance" that wants to restrain US military power and the use thereof and, incidentally, is nothing but a platform for a world government and the destruction of American sovereignty. Likewise scrap the infernal nation-sapping "trade deals."
And yet, you want to re-define conservatism to be a movement of ostriches with their empty heads in the sand and their backsides always exposed to their enemies until the baaaaaaad men just go away and leave them alone.
Pathetic.