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  There is nothing conservative about the U.S. policy in Iraq.
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News DateWednesday, September 10, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionStatement of Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tennessee)
September 10, 2003

Conservatives have been strong supporters of national defense, not international defense.

Senator Robert Taft wrote: “No foreign policy can be justified except a policy devoted…to the protection of the liberty of the American people, with war only as the last resort and only to preserve that liberty.”

Conservatives have never believed that the United States should be the policeman of the world.

President John Quincy Adams, in one of his most famous statements, said: “America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Presidents Washington and Jefferson both warned against permanent or entangling alliances with other countries.

Now, we have been in Korea for 50 years, spending over three billion dollars a year to “protect” that nation, in spite of massive anti-American demonstrations there. We are still in Bosnia even though President Clinton promised we would be out by the end of 1996. In fact we have a military presence of some sort in almost every country.

Most traditional conservatives believe we would not have nearly as many enemies around the world if we followed a non-interventionist foreign policy and did not get involved in so many religious, ethnic, and political disputes in other countries.
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