The Huffintgon Post Andrea Stone has written a great article on this subject. As the Post article states:
. . .(R)omney's roster of foreign policy advisers is heavy on Bush administration retreads, including neocons like Robert Kagan, Dan Senor and Eliot Cohen. Newt Gingrich has an eclectic list that includes several old war hawks as well as David Wurmser, a former aide to John Bolton -- once dubbed "the angriest neocon . . .
Douglas Feith, former head of the Pentagon's controversial Office of Special Plans, is an informal adviser to Perry. Cain has also mentioned Bolton, a former U.N. ambassador, as cabinet material.
Andrew Bacevich, a Boston University international relations professor whose son died in 2007 while fighting in Iraq. said this
Neoconservatives have brought discredit upon their views by proposing and vigorously supporting policy initiatives that have cost the country dearly and produced next to nothing in terms of positive results.
Iran threatens the staus quo in the Middle east with Israel being the only nuclear power with the exception of Pakistan. Is Iran a threat to the US?
Hardly.
The US has already spent $ one trillion on our two middle east wars. With VA claims, the life cycle cost of Iraq and Afghanistan are expected to be $ 4 trillion.
Of course, the GOP will try and tell you that entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare are big factors in the National Debt which is untrue. Actually the government takes the FICA payroll tax over-payments and uses these funds to pay for programs like defense.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/28/republican-foreign-policy-neoconservatives_n_1085910.html
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