It doesn't sound conservative, eh?

Tell me: when did this war in Iraq and all the wars like it became a central tenet of conservatism? There is nothing conservative about waging war so nonchalantly against a sovereign nation, despicable as their foreign and domestic policies may be, that poses no threat to a nation's interests or citizens. You were afraid it did of course: that fear has replaced freedom as the common trait of Americans. You were afraid of Islam. You were afraid of WMDs. You were afraid of craft knives. You are afraid of Mexicans taking your jobs. You are afraid of the third world taking your industry. Instead of respecting your Constitution bravely, you cower in the darkness and let Republicans and Democrats pass fearful law after fearful law and sacrifice your sons.

Now conservatives around the world, whether they support this war or not, are tarnished by it; often suffering electoral defeat, plunging our peoples into four or five years of left-wing government and oppression under their bizarre social programs. Spain or Australia, anybody? I blame the US.

In Canada we were fortunate that we had a left-wing government in power when the war drum was being sounded for Iraq. Our conservative movement could not suffer the humiliation of Iraq if it was not in power; by the time general elections came around we had cried fowl on your war and won the general election.

Joke? I don't believe you. Convenient cop-out for an ignorant, racist comment.

... who practised herbal medicine...
You're going to tell me, with a straight face, that the Catholic Church tortured and murdered people because they practiced herbal medicine?

Lumping everyone into the same pot is cowardly.
Outside of a few libertarians who believe in a isolationist foreign policy, every American believes the United States has a manifest destiny to bugger around with the world. You have different intentions and different methods of torture, but since FDR every Administration has meant the same thing for the rest of us.

The world will continue to be your friend, but I imagine it will be less and less a matter of friendship and more and more a matter of self-interest.