[Dirtbag59]

Somewhat surprising to see the Dems win on foreign policy. However the fact of the matter is a lot of people agree with the Dems foreign policy. Far right Neocons are itching for another war but they know if they come out and say it their chances of getting elected will go down.

The peace through strength thing is just empty rhetoric as far as I can tell.

In truth the terrorist are trying to provoke us. They want us to put boots on the ground. For starters it brings Americans straight to them which they love because then they don't have to travel to kill the "infidels." It also makes it easier to indoctrinate young children into extremist factions of Al-Queda as they can point and say 'look at the Americans that have come to rape our land.'

On top of that another war would hurt us economically and one of the things they've been going after is our prosperity. They love that our unemployment is so high and that our way of life is in danger. If they can get America to commit to another war then that hurts us more.

I still agree with the GOP on economic policy but this desire to increase defense and police the world is dangerous. And as we've learned over the past thousand or so years, trying to achieve peace in the Middle East is a fools errand.