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Entry: Truly Conservative? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/truly_conservative#27063 Post contents: The key point of traditional "conservative" during the “Global War of Containment" with Soviet Communism was "containment"...letting the Soviet Union fall of it's own dead weight. Not confrontation. The "liberal" view was JFK's "Cold War and Counterrevolution", which got us involved in a no-win war in Vietnam. Liberals like to forget that it was JFK who started up the Green Berets. During the Vietnam War, the complaint about the strategy in Vietnam was that the US could not expand the war because it risked confronting Mao's China, a point which the Soviet Union understood to their great delight. So the US just was stuck "bleeding" to the delight of the Soviet Commi-czars. The US had the last laugh when the Soviet Union got into it's own quagmire in Afghanistan, and it was the Soviet Union's turn to bleed in a no-win war. A "conservative" US foreign policy toward the mideast should be assuring a stable, steady supply of oil for the US economy, as a temporary measure until the US economy could be transformed to energy independence, and keeping Europe---especially the Soviet Union---from interfering in Mideast politics. All while keeping a neutral course that would not keep antagonism toward the US in an already volatile mideast cultural and political situation from erupting into outright WAR against us, and endangering our domestic tranquility. The current "Israel-First" attitude along with the utopian fantasy of transforming the Middle East into a secular, consumerist society and remaking Islam into the equivalent of the Unitarian-Universalist church is NOT "conservative". It is part of the fantasy of "free trade" and globalization that has got us into the mess in the Mideast, and we need to get out of it, and return to prudence---or real "conservativism".... Sent at: 2008 12 01