CPAC war panel excludes non-interventionists to its detriment

Published February 10, 2015 4:05pm ET



The Conservative Political Action Conference, which meets later this month, on Tuesday announced its first panel on an important topic: “When should America go to war?” But none of the participants in the panel come from the non-interventionist school of thought on the Right.

The panel features Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark, James Jay Carafano, and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, and will be moderated by K.T. McFarland. Don’t get me wrong, all of the panelists are well worth hearing from (several of them have been published by the Washington Examiner), but they also all come from the hawkish wing of the conservative movement, which doesn’t represent the full spectrum of opinion on the Right on the issue of when it’s appropriate for the U.S. to go to war.

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