What is a liberal or conservative stance on Foreign policy?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

My position is that there are various points where it is easier to distinguish liberal and conservative approaches to foreign policy. Alternatively, there are points where making any consistent distinction is very difficult. This tends to get muddled as different people may hold the same stances, or even use the same rhetoric, for different reasons. Liberal and conservative foreign policy approaches can be distinguished during, say, the Cold War, even though definitions for each were themselves never consistent. The 1990s were an era in flux, and the early years of the GWOT saw a brief firm consolidation of views on either side of the aisle. I think since 2008, things have gotten more fragmented—conservatives were on both sides of the Obama foreign policy, for example, and liberal rhetoric about the importance of the NATO system sounds more than a bit ironic.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

while right wingers are more attached to cultural relativism: Judeo-Christian values, muslim values etc.

The perhaps great exceptions to this have been imperialism and more modern attempts by America to export its values. In the debates over intervention in, I want to say, Sudan in the 1880s, Liberals (in the formal party sense) argued against a war of Christianity against Islam in North Africa while Conservatives wanted, of course, to maintain the Empire. In a strange reversal of conventional wisdom, the George W. Bush administration did make the argument that American values could be universalized, and that freedom was something every soul strove for. Liberals on the other hand were forced to argue about the merits of "democracy at gunpoint" and debate sort of got distracted from more conventional arguments (such as whether or not America could even be called a force for democracy). There is a certain sort of conservative arrogance involved in thinking that the "Judeo-Christian West" could march anywhere and remake that place in its own image. In many casses (of course), conservatives themselves, as I'm sure you know, have long derided this approach, but it nevertheless has a historical current.