Yeah none of the founding fathers would've given a shit about conflicts in the middle east. They were much more concerned about powerful Western nations and making sure America was a neat place.
10 thousand years from now, if USA still exists in a recognizable form, people like you will be whining about why the American Stellar Federation has to be concerned about what's going in Alpha Centauri, the founding fathers never had to give a damn about that after all.
For one, unlike back then, now America *is* in fact main part of "powerful Western nations" and there is no choice but to act accordingly.
you arent a conservative.
Conservatives...conserve. what is your endless bellicosity, imperialism and warmongering 'conserving' exactly?
Were your ancestors milquetoast, isolationist pacifists?
For one i'm pretty damn sure mine weren't, so that's who is being conservative here.
You certainly wouldnt have been considered one prior to the 60's, when the libertarians and objectivists took over the conservative movement and purged anyone who isnt down with endless wars, corporate greed and cultural surrender.
Libertarians and objectivists are definitely not an example of conservatives, and also they definitely are not in charge of the broad conservative movement, merely a small loosely allied minority in its camp.
Traditional conservatives were inward focused, rather suspicious of corporations and had no problem using government power to stamp down on vice and degeneracy. They certainly werent into fighting wars for a tiny little country in the middle east that had nothing tangible to offer in terms of resources.
So the New Deal era DNC of the 1930's is your ideal of conservatism then, ok, YMMV, but i can't take that seriously.