Posted by Tim Shoemaker on 07/30/10 1:29 PM Last updated 07/30/10 1:32 PM   [Newer: When people know the Constitution, it's dangerous...] [Older: July deadliest month in Afghanistan]

There are some ideas whose time never should come... this is certainly one of those.  On Thursday, Newt Gingrich suggested America should attack the rest of Bush's "Axis of Evil"...

Huffington Post reports:

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich twice called on the United States to attack North Korea and Iran Thursday because the United States has only attacked "one out of three" of so-called "Axis of Evil" members by invading Iraq. He also claimed that Muslims are trying to install Sharia law on America and said that the "War on Terror" should have been a war on "radical Islamists" instead.

Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event, Gingrich compared not following through on President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" agenda with not fully engaging the Axis power in World War II.

"Regime Change" was one of the worst (and most dangerous) policy decisions the neoconservatives ever put forth during the Bush administration.  The concept was to quickly move from one country to the next, first Iraq, then Iran, and eventually North Korea.  After the US toppled Saddam's regime and Bush declared "mission accomplished", it seemed only logical the Pentagon had set their sights on the Iranian regime next.  Perhaps it was an act of providence the US military became bogged down fighting a prolonged insurgency in Iraq that thwarted any potential plans for going after the next target. 

Newt Gingrich and furthermore neoconservative chickenhawks in general deserve to be ostracized from the Republican party.  Like a gangrenous limb, they must be cut off, never to return to power.  These people are not conservative, nor do they stand for truly limited government (which you cannot possibly hope to attain with an interventionist foreign policy).  President Bush and the neoconservatives almost destroyed the right completely with eight years of their failed policies.  A resurgence of these views should be shunned by anyone who is a friend of small government, personal freedom, and a truly strong national DEFENSE.

Posted 07/30/10 2:45 PM BruceKoerber Cedar Rapids, IA

Peace is possible. Requisite: shun the ego-driven interventionists and the ego-driven interpreters.

Posted 07/30/10 4:54 PM Al Langhans Elizabethville, PA

on a side note... Newt Gingrich thinks Ron Paul is running in 2012!

Posted 07/30/10 5:07 PM JohnF Lake Mary, FL

Newt is a wuss. Let's just go to war with China and get it over with. How's THAT for a preemptive strike?

Posted 07/31/10 09:09 AM Dan Prentice Spring Hill, FL

Peace is possible: just bring the boys and equipment home, and worry about the fallout latter