Jaw-Jaw or War-War?

"The modern conservative movement was founded in no small part on the idea that presidents Truman and Eisenhower were 'appeasing' the Soviets. The logic went something like this: Because communism was evil, the United States should seek to destroy it, not coexist with it; the bipartisan policy of containment, which sought to prevent the further spread of communism, was a moral and strategic folly because it implied long-term coexistence with Moscow. Conservative foreign policy guru James Burnham wrote entire books claiming that containment--which, after the Cold War, would be credited with defeating the Soviet Union--constituted 'appeasement.'
"Instead, conservatives agitated for the rollback of communism, and they opposed all negotiations with the Soviets. When Eisenhower welcomed Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to the United States in 1959, William F. Buckley Jr., the right's leader, complained that the act of 'diplomatic sentimentality' signaled the 'death rattle of the West.'"

J. Peter Scoblic in the Los Angeles Times depicts how often conservatives have been wrong in denouncing diplomacy.

And in The New York Times, Nicholas Confessore reviews Scoblic's U.S vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security.