Which foreign policy is better for the Republican party in 2016 and beyond?

[Suburbia]

As the Ukraine-Russia-U.S. tensions continue, some neoconservatives (such as John Bolton, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Charles Krauthammer, Bill O'Reilly) are calling for more aggressive foreign policy around the world to "fight back" dictators and end the supposedly "feckless Obama foreign policy". On the other hand, the libertarian and isolationist wing of the GOP (Ron and Rand Paul, Justin Amash, etc) want the U.S. out of foreign intervention right now and beyond. Which foreign policy is better for the GOP, and as a whole, the nation; the Bolton/McCain/Fox News foreign policy or the "let's not be the world's policeman" wing of the GOP? Would this 'neoconservative" policy be the same Bush policy, as it was alleged years ago?

[ElectionsGuy]

As the Ukraine-Russia-U.S. tensions continue, some neoconservatives (such as John Bolton, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Charles Krauthammer, Bill O'Reilly) are calling for more aggressive foreign policy around the world to "fight back" dictators and end the supposedly "feckless Obama foreign policy". On the other hand, the libertarian and isolationist wing of the GOP (Ron and Rand Paul, Justin Amash, etc) want the U.S. out of foreign intervention right now and beyond. Which foreign policy is better for the GOP, and as a whole, the nation; the Bolton/McCain/Fox News foreign policy or the "let's not be the world's policeman" wing of the GOP?

[bedstuy]

Three point plan:

1. Copy the Democrats in substance, but constantly insult them and call them unpatriotic and weak.
2.  Insist on unsustainable levels of military spending to starve the poor and middle class. 
3.  Something about Benghazi!

[Randy Bobandy]

OP, you're inferring that Democrats and Republicans differ on foreign policy.

[AggregateDemand]

2.  Insist on unsustainable levels of military spending to starve the poor and middle class. 

Remember the 50s 60s and 70s when the middle class reigned supreme? We were spending 50% of the federal budget on a standing military force of 2M soldiers. If the Democrats stopped hating the military and the ghost of Vietnam they might actually achieve something for a change.

[AggregateDemand]

The US foreign power is built on Dollar Diplomacy and economic competence. We've been wasting our dollars and embracing incompetence for quite some time. Aggressive neocon brinksmanship is not going to put the US back in the catbird seat.

[Amish]

A non-interventionist policy is NOT the same as an isolationist policy. With a non-interventionist policy we would still be communicating and working and trading with other nations peacefully and diplomatically, but we wouldn't have our military everywhere across the world (or going into wars w/o a proper declaration of war), or threatening nations with sanctions and threats.

[TNF]

2.  Insist on unsustainable levels of military spending to starve the poor and middle class. 

Remember the 50s 60s and 70s when the middle class reigned supreme? We were spending 50% of the federal budget on a standing military force of 2M soldiers. If the Democrats stopped hating the military and the ghost of Vietnam they might actually achieve something for a change.

The prosperity of the 50s, 60s, and 70s had less to do with military spending than it had to do with the fact that one out of three workers was a union member.

[Mordecai]

2.  Insist on unsustainable levels of military spending to starve the poor and middle class. 

Remember the 50s 60s and 70s when the middle class reigned supreme? We were spending 50% of the federal budget on a standing military force of 2M soldiers. If the Democrats stopped hating the military and the ghost of Vietnam they might actually achieve something for a change.

The prosperity of the 50s, 60s, and 70s had less to do with military spending than it had to do with the fact that one out of three workers was a union member.

And that the world was less globalised, you couldn't offshore jobs to China and India. And trickle-down economics hadn't become popular yet.

Interesting though that AD is arguing for a military-welfare state.

[Repub242]

I am a neoconservative. I believe the United States should have a very strong foreign policy. So, I think the Republican Party should also have that position, no matter how many votes we lose because of it.