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
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