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Conservatives and Liberals, did you know (regarding war)...?
... that the role of intervention is usually reversed? Specifically, conservatism tends to favor an isolationist stance, one of nonintervention and not surrendering sovereignty to international organizations. Likewise, liberals tend to be the ones who favor intervention in other nations to protect against human rights violations.
These are broad, sweeping generalizations of course, but that is typically the nature of attitudes towards the use of force.
Consider "conservatives" Ron Paul's foreign policy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_o...
Consider "liberals" Bill Clinton's warmongering: Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia, etc.
What do people think?
Also for the record, every US president in the past 50 years - Republican or Democratic - has some form of military intervention on their record, so this transcends the party partisan divisions, political parties are corrupt entities and do not have the values they claim to represent.
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- semisweetgirlLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Conservative veteran here - I disagree
I think ALL governments believe in intervention when they will benefit in some way otherwise they turn a blind eye (example - Clinton with Rwanda)
Look at what we did to Liberia - once we had depleted their natural resources we left them in a civil war and in shambles.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Well, if you look at the classic definitions of liberalism vs. conservatism, you will find that they are much more alike than people realize. However, we no longer have liberals and conservatives, so these labels are misleading. The Democratic party has become a bunch of Socialists, and the Republicans have become a bunch of Democrats.
- DARLv 71 decade ago
I agree. Did you see Ron Paul at the hearing yesterday on the War Powers Act replacement some want? Scary stuff.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Agreed..
But.. To defend the liberal side...
Iraq was hardly a definition of priorities.. We had many genocides to jump into at the time, but Iraq surpassed a real problem. I can easily see a liberal against this war due to priorities.. I'm finding it very hard to understand why a "conservative" would support it...
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Of course conservatives believe in isolation.
Democrats like the money they make killing the Patriotic Conservatives.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If Ron Paul was President he would squander the strategic gains, that took us a century to build, in a year.
The foreign instability caused by the U.S. ducking back into its shell would destabilize the world.
And...the world would hate us for it....forever.
