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To: Jim Robinson

Exactly.

The PC brainwashing in this country has so thoroughly addled the thinking of Americans that most US citizens accept as truth the following points:

1. It is America’s responsibility to impose justice, freedom, and prosperity throughout the world.
2. All people of world have the same rights in the US Constitution as US citizens.

We have no obligation to help other countries, especially when we no longer have the resources to do so and especially when those countries resent the ideals of Western Civilization and see our attempts to help them as a form of colonialism.

Only US citizens have the rights and protections enumerated in (safeguarded but not granted by) the US Constitution.

I believe in natural rights. But other countries must first set up their system of governance in accordance with natural rights. From that, they can construct a constitution that gives them the same rights that we have.

But they do not have our rights (such as living here, welfare, etc.) and we are not obligated to set other countries in order.


28 posted on 12/06/2015 5:40:28 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
1. It is America's responsibility to impose justice, freedom, and prosperity throughout the world.

I saw a US Army recruiting commercial which brought up that talking point.

My first reaction (after my hackles went up) was "You should be protecting THIS country, first and foremost. If the rest want a country, let them build it the way they want."

86 posted on 12/06/2015 10:08:17 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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