This piece from Pacific News Service takes a reasonably
well-informed look at divisions on the war question in what is
traditionally thought of as the "right," for what such terms are
worth. An excerpt:
"Realists" like Brent Scowcroft, former national security
adviser to the first President Bush, Lawrence Eagleburger, former
secretary of state, and business leaders who ran "A Republican
Dissent on Iraq" in the Wall Street Journal this January, drew
attention with their warning that a hasty war could set the entire
region on fire. Less well known are objections from conservatives
driven by a strict reading of the Constitution and distaste for the
"welfare-warfare state."
"Opposition to an unjust war is a conservative tradition," insists Jon B. Utley, the Robert A. Taft fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala. "War of conquest encourages the growth of state power and burdensome taxation." With war in Iraq, Utley fears that America is forging a world alliance against itself. "We'll all be soft targets."
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