I Advocate the Same Foreign Policy the Founding Fathers Would, RON PAUL

[align=left] I Advocate the Same Foreign Policy the Founding Fathers Would
Ron Paul
Tuesday October 09, 2007[/align]
Published on October 8, 2007, in the Manchester Union-Leader.
Any response to this paper's Friday editorial on my foreign policy position must rest on two fundamental assertions: first, that the Founding Fathers were not isolationists; and second, that their political philosophy â?? the wisdom of the Constitution, the Declaration, and our Revolution itself â?? is not just a primitive cultural relic.
If I understand the editors' concerns, I have not been accused of deviating from the Founders' logic; if anything I have been accused of adhering to it too strictly. The question, therefore, before readers â?? and soon voters â?? is the same question I have asked for almost 20 years in Congress: by what superior wisdom have we now declared Jefferson, Washington, and Madison to be "unrealistic and dangerous"? Why do we insist on throwing away their most considered warnings?
A non-interventionist foreign policy is not an isolationist foreign policy. It is quite the opposite. Under a Paul administration, the United States would trade freely with any nation that seeks to engage with us. American citizens would be encouraged to visit other countries and interact with other peoples rather than be told by their own government that certain countries are off limits to them.
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American citizens would be allowed to spend their hard-earned money wherever they wish across the globe, not told that certain countries are under embargo and thus off limits. An American trade policy would encourage private American businesses to seek partners overseas and engage them in trade. The hostility toward American citizens overseas in the wake of our current foreign policy has actually made it difficult if not dangerous for Americans to travel abroad. Is this not an isolationist consequence from a policy of aggressive foreign interventionism?
It is not we non-interventionists who are isolationsists. The real isolationists are those who impose sanctions and embargoes on countries and peoples across the globe because they disagree with the internal and foreign policies of their leaders. The real isolationists are those who choose to use force overseas to promote democracy, rather than seek change through diplomacy, engagement, and by setting a positive example.
I do not believe that ideas have an expiration date, or that their value can be gauged by their novelty. The test for new and old is that of wisdom and experience, or as the editors wrote "historical reality," which argues passionately now against the course of anti-Constitutional interventionism.
A Paul administration would see Americans engaged overseas like never before, in business and cultural activities. But a Paul administration would never attempt to export democracy or other values at the barrel of a gun, as we have seen over and over again that this is a counterproductive approach that actually leads the United States to be resented and more isolated in the world.
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Now don't forget Pisshead, if America didn't go around policing the world, enemies left right and center would destroy our freedom! That's why the government withholds our freedoms, the terrorists can't get them if big-brother has them.

And remember, everybody who doesn't agree with America is the enemy; every enemy, whether a legal army or a national government, is a terrorist and thereby delegitimized.

Our Founding Fathers........LMAO! Even the politicians like to change up actual history in order to fit an agenda.

(1801-1805)

The Barbary Wars were a series of (largely) naval conflicts between the young United States of America and several of the Muslim nations on the coast of North Africa in the early 1800's. To the 'Western' point of view, these North African countries on the "Barbary" coast engaged in piracy on the open seas against merchant shipping. The piracy against American shipping continued until the U.S. gained the military and naval strength to protect American-flagged ships. It is significant to note that this was the first conflict in which America fought a war in the "Old World" rather than in her "New World" neighborhood.

The First Barbary War, also known as the Tripolitanian War, lasted from 1801 to 1805, and is considered by many to be America's first "foreign war." This conflict also featured America's first attempt at "regime change" as the Marines attempted to place an ally on the throne in Tripoli.
The History Guy: Barbary Wars

IF they had the same technology in the old days as they do now, our Founding Fathers would be making sure they had a good grasp on what the actions were of our neighbors across the sea.

Have a good one!:s4:

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This conflict also featured America's first attempt at "regime change" as the Marines attempted to place an ally on the throne in Tripoli.
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You neglect to mention the marines were captured and the US forced to pay a ransom for their return. So much for not negotiating with terrorists.

YouTube - Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.

I know seriously you hear all this founding fathers crap, that was a diff age and a diff era...how the hell would you know what they would have wanted/what they would do now?

Gimme a break.

You don't know and stop trying to use them as an excuse to further your propaganda/political postion.

umm I guess this guy jack sparrow failed to click on my Youtube video lmao. :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by steme

umm I guess this guy jack sparrow failed to click on my Youtube video lmao. :jointsmile:

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or he could also read the declaration of independence, bill of rights, federalist and anti-federalist papers for a start...

Or I could live in reality, there's a thought. :thumbsup:

You're really rude Captain Sparrow. I'm high and it was just ruined. Damn...

lol wtf...sorry i'm buzzed but am i really that rude?

oh well give me negative rep if i am i guess i deserve it. :thumbsup:

Again I'm sorry I'll try to be more nice in the future but you guys read into this conspiracy theory crap/everyone's working against you shit too much. I'm buzzed too but my high's not ruined cuz i don't put too much stock into an online thread moksha.

Yes, I didn't click the youtube link but now I did and my thoughts are still the same...so what?

Please by all means enlighten me though.

One of the greatest generals ever and one of the few presidents of this great country told you to fear the military that is now running ramped isent alarming to you at all? Watch a documentary called "Why we fight". It isent no conspiracy bull crap I hate all this 9-11 stuff as much as you.

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Originally Posted by Captain Jack Sparrow

I know seriously you hear all this founding fathers crap, that was a diff age and a diff era...how the hell would you know what they would have wanted/what they would do now?

Gimme a break.

You don't know and stop trying to use them as an excuse to further your propaganda/political postion.

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Wow! We know what they would have wanted and how we should run this country because they left us something called the Constitution. The constitution was created because they were well aware of how other countries have failed. Just because it's a new age does not mean we just throw the Constitution out the window! We would not be where we are today if we would have just ignored what they left behind.

It is not an excuse to further propaganda/political position it is how we were instructed to run this country.

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Originally Posted by pisshead

or he could also read the declaration of independence, bill of rights, federalist and anti-federalist papers for a start...

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Bill of rights! Well you can take that hippy leftist crap outa here son! Pffft, "rights." What next, freedom to hate on the president himself!