The Old Right Resurfacing

George Will makes an interesting reference to Tea Party libertarian foreign policy non-interventionism:

Finally, give a thought to a subject almost no one has wanted to talk about this autumn. The nation is in the 10th year of its longest war and in what has been for American forces the deadliest year of that war. Do not assume that all freshman Republicans will support the current strategy and objectives - whatever they are - in Afghanistan.

The flavorful ingredients in the simmering stew that is the Tea Party impulse include a dash of the foreign policy skepticism associated with the Robert Taft tradition of conservatism. The Ohio senator died in 1953; the need for his prudence did not.

Will, almost alone among prominent conservatives, turned against our Afghanistan intervention toward the beginning of the Obama administration. Time will tell whether this opposition is just a politically convenient mood or a more permanent shift in conservative philosophy.