Top 10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Oppose War with Iran (Amazing James Madison and Merle Haggard Quoted in the Same Article!)
10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Oppose War with Iran … from the American Conservative Defense Alliance
#1
Conservatives believe that war is a “last option” that should only be initiated when there is a direct and imminent threat to the United States. Iran does not currently pose such a threat.
“In short, deliberate entry into war commonly brings on consequences disagreeable even to the seeming victors. Prudent statesmen long have known that armed conflict, for a! involved, ought to be the last desperate resort, to be entered upon only when means of diplomacy, conciliation, and compromise have been exhausted.” - Russell Kirk
“The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: the United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.” - Ronald Reagan
#3
Conservatives believe in small government and individual liberties. War with Iran will inevitably lead to an increase in the size of federal bureaucracies, most particularly the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the intelligence services and will lead to calls for greater government intrusion in the lives of all Americans.
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy… Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” - James Madison
“In 1969, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there’s available to an average citizen in American right now…God almighty, what have we done to each other?” - Merle Haggard
Read the other 8 of the 10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Oppose War with Iran [.pdf]