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The author has confused conservatives with neocons. True conservatives align themselves with George Washington's Farewell Address, which advises no entangling foreign alliances.

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Max Boot acknowledges that the attempt to change the political face of the middle east would be a huge undertaking. At the same time he denies that it would be an act of hubris.
Washington had been tempered by hard experience; experience of limits. With his immense foresight he saw not only the dangers posed to the republic by foreign entanglements, but that foreign entanglements would inevitably move us from republican virtue to the hubris of empire.
We are already far down that path. This latest "dream" will just harden the mold.

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Washington had been tempered by hard experience; experience of limits. With his immense foresight he saw not only the dangers posed to the republic by foreign entanglements, but that foreign entanglements would inevitably move us from republican virtue to the hubris of empire. We are already far down that path. This latest "dream" will just harden the mold.

Well put, and I agree.

The question is how to return to Constitutional government and restore the Free Republic.