Paul Weyrich a founder of today's conservative movement (and the founder of the Heritage Foundation, among other things), is aghast and appalled at what the contemporary conservative movement of today has morphed into: Which is to say an oddball coalition of religious nuts and war obsessed neo-cons. It always makes my heart glad when the scales drop from the eyes of these sorts of well intentioned (but very wrong) folks on the right and they start to come back to more libertarian views and values. People like Craig Paul Roberts, and even Pat Buchanan on a good day.

Statism and war are bad admits Weyrich in this piece. And with the Cold War over, there is simply no justification for foreign meddling which cause more problems than it solves.

"Of course, all conservatives accept the fact that the state must defend us from terrorism and other acts of war. That has always been one of the state's duties. But as a conservative, I do not want "permanent war for permanent peace," as George Orwell put it in his book 1984.

I am not convinced that the best way to defend America from terrorism is to invade and occupy other countries, countries with religions and cultures very different from our own. At the very least, the next conservatism should ask whether such a policy generates more terrorists than it eliminates, and whether we would be better served by isolating ourselves from disordered places than by intervening in them. "

Maybe there is hope for these guys. I hope so anyhow.