New AntiWar.com Article: Conservatives Should Be Antiwar

I haven't written a piece for AntiWar.com in a long time, but I was inspired to make the case that it shouldn't just be libertarians and bleeding heart liberals (at least before Trump) who oppose war. Conservatives should oppose, and indeed have opposed, war.

Right off the bat and contrary to popular belief, the Left has generally speaking during the 20th century, been more pro war than the Right,

A look back through American history quickly shows that at least the mainstream Left has been far more hawkish than the Right. Going all the way back to the Spanish-American War, progressive and feminist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "Though I hate war per se, I am glad that it has come in this instance. I would like to see Spain… swept from the face of the earth."
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While the parties have certainly changed over the years, it’s first worth noting that the United States became involved in each of its four major wars in the 20th century under Democratic Presidents; World War I under Woodrow Wilson, World War II under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Korean War under Harry Truman and the Vietnam War under Lyndon Johnson. And while World War II was necessary to fight, could there have been a more pointless, bloody waste that the first World War?

And especially with regards to foreign adventurism to "export democracy," conservatives should look at such notions with extreme skepticism. After all, this type of thinking is utterly utopian; which should be seen as an idea of the Left. As Russell Kirk put it,

Human nature suffers irremediably from certain grave faults, the conservatives know. Man being imperfect, no perfect social order ever can be created. Because of human restlessness, mankind would grow rebellious under any utopian domination, and would break out once more in violent discontent – or else expire of boredom. To seek for utopia is to end in disaster.

So conservatives: Reject utopian thinking, reject war and please check the piece out.