Most GOP leaders belatedly admit George W. Bush betrayed small government conservatives. Some will even say that Big Government Republicanism is no better than Big Government Liberalism – and will likely continue to say that until the next GOP president is inaugurated. The Republican awakening on foreign policy has been a bit slower in coming, but the first signs of hope are surfacing.

Two of the Republican Party’s biggest hawks are open to leaving Afghanistan. That endless war has lasted a decade, cost American families thousands of loved ones and still costs taxpayers $2 billion a week.