America's Foreign Policy: Time to Stop Babysitting the World By John Hawkins

Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine complained that, "There is nothing inherently "conservative" about the war in Iraq, and nothing inherently objectionable to the idea that we should have a more humble, skeptical and cautious foreign policy.  The way that candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel have been virtually drummed out of polite Republican circles for arguing that we should be more cautious and skeptical is eternally frustrating to me.  Even if I disagree with them, it's a valuable perspective--and, in the grand scheme of foreign policy, more often right than (wrong)."

        The problem Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel have is not truly that they're disagreeing with most of their fellow Republicans, it's that they're disagreeable fellows who’ve adopted the offensive rhetoric of the left as their own on foreign policy.

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