In a recent column, Commentary’s Seth Mandel contends that Dwight Eisenhower was no great model for conservatives — that, in fact, his foreign policy was “muddled, improvised, confused, and often shallow.” Mandel further contends that there is already a robust, reigning GOP foreign-policy consensus, which Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) does not challenge, and that would-be foreign-policy reformers need to move beyond “ritual denunciations of [George W.] Bush.”If Senator Paul were to embrace a consensus with the other likely Republican presidential candidates in support of a strong national-security policy, we would certainly welcome that. He did eventually come out in …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research