Wall Street Journal: “The campaign has made it clear that weariness over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is still the most powerful force shaping Americans’ thinking on their role abroad. The influence of the neo-conservatives who pushed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq is fading; their last standard-carrier in this year’s campaign was Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who has disappeared.”
“The key question now is when the remaining candidates would be willing to use American power to intervene to shape global events. In a topsy-turvy campaign, it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise that the general-election candidate most willing to use American power to intervene in world hot spots may well turn out to be the Democrat, not the Republican, a turnabout of significant proportions.”
“None of the remaining Republican candidates—Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich—has the kind of inclination to intervene abroad, particularly in the Middle East, that has marked their party’s recent history.”
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