Conservatives, Give War a Chance
Kurt Schlichter
Editor's note: After this column was set for publication, the US military reported that an Iranian-backed militia drone attack killed three service members in Jordan. The Iranians need to pay.It seems bizarre that I have to tell fellow conservatives this, but it’s sometimes OK to go to war. We’re fighting right now, and some cons are up in arms about our current armed conflict. But war is not inherently wrong. War is sometimes necessary. Sometimes it’s not. And sometimes, a war is poorly run. For example, in America, that “sometimes” is pretty much the entire last 30 years. But that does not mean that war is never an option. Sometimes it’s necessary. Conservatism is not pacifism with lower marginal tax rates.
Again, I don’t know why I have to say this, but I do. There is a strain of modern conservatism that believes all war is inherently wrong and done solely for the sake of corporations and blah blah blah blah blah. I get the cynicism. I deployed a couple of times. But this idea that there is nothing worth fighting over outside our borders is childish. It’s not conservative. It’s just lame. And people should stop thinking it.
Now, there are plenty of wars around the globe we should not want to be a part of. In fact, staying out of wars should be the default. We should not get involved in a war unless a demonstrable American interest is at stake and we have the will and capacity to win. If we don’t, we must stay the hell out. But if those conditions are met, we need to be ready to fight.
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