Just because I don’t totally agree with the Reagan foreign policy doesn’t mean that I can’t quote his comments relating conservatism to libertarianism when the topic of libertarian lenaing Republicans comes up.

And if I told someone that Reagan was a great President, that doesn’t mean that I support amnesty for illegal aliens either, as I’m sure you would agree.

Many of us libertarian-leaning Republicans can and do question various aspects of military decisions, our nation’s , our foreign policy and actions by the U.S. way-left-leaning state department. It’s just that we don’t accept that the isolationist bent of this resolution is the best strategic path forward.

As do so many others, I, too, have family members serving in an active duty capacity in the military — and would like nothing better than to see our troops come safely home NOW.

However, to bring home troops now would be tantamount to ceding Iraq back to enemies of freedom — which would serve neither our national interests, nor those of our allies, nor certainly the interests of the majority of Iraqi people who are relishing improved living conditions and grateful for the efforts and stabilizing presence of the U.S.

Remember what Ronald Reagan said?

“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.” -Ronald Reagan