"A Conservative War?"

From "The Case for Peace" by Daniel McCarthy, a review of Neo-conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq edited by D.L. O’Huallachain and J. Forrest Sharpe, in the March 8, 2006 print edition of The American Conservative:

[Paul] Gottfried questions how a war aimed at democratization and the total transformation of a foreign land's culture and politics can in any sense be considered conservative. "Attempts to conserve a customary way of life against outside threats, and to resist violence directed against persons and property fit the definition of a conservative war," he says, and nothing of that sort was at stake in Iraq.