Foreign Policy and Defense
FCF took a hard-line anti-communist stance in the Cold War, rejecting détente and arms control and supporting efforts to overthrow communist governments. However, other than Strategic Defense Initiative which it strongly backed, FCF did not fully endorse the Reagan program of spending on expensive weapon systems, a stance it continues to this day. It remains hostile to the Communist China.
FCF has been friendlier to post-communist Serbia and Russia than most contemporary conservatives. It was against US intervention in the Balkans, leaning more toward the Orthodox Christian Serbs than the Muslim Bosnians and Albanians.
While arguably against Islam, particularly to Muslim immigration to the West, and for racial and religious profiling in anti-terrorist efforts, FCF has been more opposed to the worldwide War on Terror, and particularly the Iraq War, than other conservatives.
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