McCain's 180

The American people did not support the goals of nation-building, peacemaking,
law and order and certainly not warlord funding. For us to get into
nation-building, law and order, etc, I think is a tragic and terrible mistake.
But the argument that somehow the United States would suffer a loss to our
prestige and our viability, as far as the No. 1 superpower in the world, I
think, is baloney. The fact is, what can hurt our prestige, Mr. President, I'll
tell you what can hurt our viability, as the world's superpower, and that is, if
we enmesh ourselves in a drawn-out situation, which entails the loss of American
lives, more debacles like the one we saw with the failed mission to capture
Aidid's lieutenants, using American forces, and that then will be what hurts our
prestige.

That was John McCain in 1993 in regards to Somalia. Looks like attractive conservative principles to me. What has happened since then?