GOP Hopefuls Search for a Foreign-Policy Model

GOP Hopefuls Search for a Foreign-Policy Model

Texas Governor Rick Perry recently made his bid for the hearts and minds of the Republican rank and file (and for the 2016 GOP presidential primaries). He did so by venturing into the realm of foreign policy and penning a Washington Post op-ed attacking a more popular rival--Kentucky Senator Rand Paul--for his "isolationism." More than that, Gov. Perry announced that his views on war and peace, not Sen. Paul's, are more in keeping with the vision of the man who defines the aspirations of all Republican presidential hopefuls: Ronald Reagan. Perry is correct that Reagan was no isolationist (or non-interventionist, if you prefer labels devoid of pejorative connotations). But even so, Reagan's foreign policies were must less interventionist than Perry imagines, according to Independent Institute Senior Fellow Ivan Eland. READ MOREhttp://www.independent.org/publications/the_lighthouse/detail.asp?id=1558#3888

Rick Perry Wrongly Smears Rand Paul on Foreign Policy, by Ivan Eland (The Huffington Post, 7/14/14)

No War for Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East, by Ivan Eland

Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, by Ivan Eland