[DeuceTraveler]

"I have no intergenerational commitment to anyone except my progeny and generations of Americans to come. I am commited to doing my best to return the country to it's freedom roots."

And you don't believe freedom abroad helps freedom at home? If the entire world was Communist except the United States it would crush us ideologically. We are already being attacked ideologically due to the lack of freedom in the world. How can we compare the progress of a liberal economy compared to a state economy when we are one of only a few nations that have a liberal economy and we have those in our country that swear it is American social programs that make us great and not our businesses?

[LowCountryJoe]

Ya know, I really like the fact that you've used the word "liberal" when referring to our economy. In fact, I think that we should don the box-cutters and hijack the word; taking it back from the socialists in the "central planner party". Imagine the confusion!

From now on I'm going to call myself a "liberal" but with the qualifier that it's meant in the classical sense.

[Protagoras]

And you don't believe freedom abroad helps freedom at home?

If you think we can spread freedom abroad by attacking other countries and nation building I say you are naive to say the least.

We can help freedom abroad by practicing it here, something we aren't very good at anymore.