[hcmama]

Republicans use to be the party that kept us out of unnecessary wars. They need to return to that.

Conservative foreign policy has always been grounded in realism. It has historically rejected this social-engineering-writ-large nonsense of "nation-building" as a waste of blood and treasure. Why the neo-cons decided to breathe life into this discredited policy, and why so many traditional conservatives swallowed it whole, is a mystery to me.

[itsahoot]

Republicans use to be the party that kept us out of unnecessary wars. They need to return to that. Conservative foreign policy has always been grounded in realism.

Want to give an example of a peace settlement where we came out ahead. We won WW II decisively, but lost Billions in the process, and gave Russia half of Europe. We suck at peace deals.