2 Camps Trying to Influence McCain on Foreign PolicyPosted: 7 months ago by JDRucker One component of the fractious Republican Party foreign policy establishment — the so-called pragmatists, some of whom have come to view the Iraq war or its execution as a mistake — is expressing concern that Mr. McCain might be coming under increased influence from a competing camp, the neoconservatives. Comments: 1 Score: [-] -29 [+].