House Majority Leader Eric Cantor gave a speech last week at the Virginia Military Institute that left little doubt about his foreign-policy agenda: more wars of choice.

The U.S. left Afghanistan and Iraq too early for his taste. "The plain truth is that we still have work to do in Afghanistan," he said. "It would be a terrible mistake for the U.S. to make the same mistake we made in Iraq. Our hasty and total withdrawal squandered the hard-fought gains won by the military at such great cost."

He likens Iran today to Nazi Germany before World War II.

He complains about the Obama Administration's "light footprint" approach to Libya and calls for the U.S. to play a greater role in countries affected by the Arab Spring. And he asserts that President Obama's remarks on Syria "committed the United States to a policy of regime change" that hasn't been carried out:

Months into Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s brutal suppression of a nation-wide protest movement, momentum appeared to be with the protesters. President Obama—sensing perhaps that Assad’s fall was inevitable—called for the dictator to go. In doing so, the president violated Lyndon Johnson’s maxim that you 'shouldn’t tell a man to go to Hell unless you’re prepared to send him there.' *

Incredibly, in the same speech, he criticizes the Obama Administration for failing to do enough to pivot toward Asia. So Cantor believes that the United States is paying insufficient attention to China, North Korea, and our Pacific allies ... even as he insists the U.S. should still be fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, that the U.S. should have used more U.S. force in Libya, that it should be more involved in Syria's civil war, and that we should be prepared to wage war on Iran. Little surprise that he calls for more defense spending. We've got the largest military in the world by a significant margin, but it isn't even close to big enough if we're going to fight at least four wars in a region that he doesn't even regard as our focus!