Speaks for itself.
As a whole there is a vast myth of the US not being involved in global conflicts/interest.
We have a fine job of it.
Do they think Jefferson didn’t send Marines to the “shores of Tripoli”. (That’s just around the corner from Carthage, btw, and I don’t mean Carthage, Miss.)
I understand that isolationism is historically bad. I understand that we have replaced DIRECT intervention with arming/supporting factions because intervention is wrong... but we seem to be @#$@# no matter what we do. I DO think we need to close our borders and stop all immigration that is not for
1) Science/tech/etc people we need...
2)People who would be killed if they can’t move...
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I think Ron Paul’s isolationism is extreme and not in the American tradition.
However, even though we advocate principles based on popular self-government and oppose tyrants in principle, we MUST realize that our own best interests should come FIRST, and that a government such as ours cannot be instituted from without in an environment which has no tradition or history of freedom, democracy or human rights.
THAT is where the Bush type globalists have failed.
It took over a 1000 years of evolution before we got it right. Muslims have demonstrated their religion makes them incapable of even STARTING on that road. The results of our abortive efforts in “nation-building” in Iraq, our continued failure to achieve stability in Afghanistan and the poisonous fruit of the Arab Spring, bare this all out.
One day it may be us talking about a non interventionist policy with China concerning us. This policy of propping up and tearing down other countries came back to bite us with 9/11 and there is a whole lot of more bad feeling from many different countries that we have screw through out the years.
If anti-filibustering laws like the Boland Amendment weren’t in place, limiting the ability of private Americans to support nascent democratic movements, I could agree. Then it wouldn’t be a problem to claim that the early U.S. supported the export of democracy and it should continue. But these ridiculous laws ARE in place, and because they cannot donate to republican causes worldwide on the basis of American law, the average American doesn’t have interest in or time to study international politics. We all like to think as a result that the U.S. government supports the good guys. All too often, those average Americans are dead wrong. And THAT is why a return to normal American foreign policy would be superior to our current national policy of dangerous liaisons, utilizing our military only as globocrat enforcers instead of defenders of our national sovereignty and security.