Be prepared for scores of people to tell you that “isolationism is a pipe dream” in today’s world, and that Washington’s wisdom is outdated.
As to foreign influence...such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils...
100%. LOL.
This one looks like a good addition to my profile page.
I have been for isolationism on some scale for a long while. No more foreign wars and stop letting them muck up our economy. It is all about how much money politicians and multi-national corporations can steal from us.
I'm sure that those people would have done a much better job than George Washington commanding the Continental Army and presiding over the Continental Congresses /sarc>
Washington's wisdom has been quite fitting for some time.
One can easily think of appropriate things intended to be fixed, even in a changing world.
However, the shoes one wore as a child cannot be expected to wear comfortably today.
Distant nations are now our next-door neighbors and are "foreign" in concept only.
The enemy of our neighbor sometimes is, or intends to become our enemy as well even without telling us so and without our involvement.
In recent times, forward deployment as a security measure has served us well - but even that is becoming increasingly unimportant.
Ready or not, the world has changed and is changing.
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith...
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This statement will never be outdated.
Too bad our past & present political leadership doesn’t adhere to it.