GOP's Chesty Foreign Policy

Robert Draper’s “The Invasion Equation” illustrates the Republican’s foreign policy incoherence which comes a from a fundamental misunderstanding of equating military with political power.  That most of the candidates are calling up the neocon experts who ushered in our current Middle Eastern morass is laughable.  Rand Paul’s view that the defense expenditures need to be reduced is the motive force driving him toward a more rational foreign policy of do no harm. Otherwise the G.O.P. falls in with the “chesty” version of foreign policy posturing which requires bloodletting, something that doctors thought was beneficial  two hundred years ago.