The ability to focus on the past, not the present, could save our future.
Warmonger, war hawk and barbarian.
These are just a few of the common terms “accepting” liberals use to besmirch conservatives and their foreign policies. As conservatives, we have come to take such pointed comments as compliments, regardless of liberal ill will.
Our worldview as conservatives, with respect to foreign policy, is a simple one: protect America, protect Americans and spread our nation’s founding principles the best we can.
Unfortunately, implementing this very simple brand of foreign policy is complicated by the basest difference between liberals and conservatives: selfish tendencies. At their heart, liberals tend to be hedonistic—desirous of immediate self-gratification and self-serving interests.
Hedonism is at the root of most all liberal policies, such as abortion, encouraging single-parent families, deficit spending, legalized drug/prostitution use, illegal immigration and nuclear disarmament.
When one looks at the immediate pleasure that is easily found in this very short list of liberal policies, it is easy to see why liberals support them. Doing what is currently expedient and popular—regardless of the future—is easy.
Why worry about the high delinquency rate of children raised in single-parent homes when it is easier to approve of those who have children out of wedlock?
Why reduce entitlement spending today when our children can worry about the debt it creates later?
Why take measures to stop illegal immigration when later generations can deal with its detriments in the future? You get the picture.
Interestingly, this selfish nature explains one fact that liberals try their hardest to bury: though liberal households tend to earn more money than conservative households, conservative households donate an average of 30 percent more to charity.
Today, the question of how to best deal with Iran demonstrates this contentious conflict between hedonistic liberals and farsighted conservatives.
Because conservatives are not concerned with what is currently popular and expedient, we are able examine our past and to anticipate the future when creating our foreign policy with respect to Iran.
Conservatives support Israel and are committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Looking to the past, we know that volatile nations and nuclear technology do not mix well.
We are able to visualize a future with a nuclear Iran and see it is not at all desirable. Seeing this dangerous future requires that one be able to look past the immediate displeasure associated with preventing a nuclear Iran (regional instability, military conflict, oil crisis).
Unfortunately, selfishness prevents this desire to ensure a stable future.
We conservatives do not enjoy war, as some liberals might lead you to believe. No sane individual looks forward to war, but, unlike our liberal counterparts, we realize that liberal foreign policy (Obama appeasement policy) is neither effective nor prudent.
Liberals either foolishly believe that Iran is seeking to use its nuclear technology for peace or they simply are not willing to cowboy up and do the hard but necessary thing.
Only hedonism explains why liberals are willing to return time after time to the failed process of sanctions.
