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Geo. Washington, T. Paine on non-interventionism, avoiding entangling alliances

[CenTexConfederate]

Thanks for the flag. Great article. Japan and Korea are both rich. It’s time for us to bring our troops home. Same with Europe, the cold war is over.The war on terror is a joke. 6 years after 9/11 and our great war time President won’t even protect our borders.

We should extend our hand in friendship to all those that want it, and mind our own business. No more meddling overseas. An old America First Foreign policy.

[mnehring]

Ping Post #59 as you use this in your ping list posts..

[cva66snipe]

From the article a point I agree with on 100% and is the real heart of the matter proving Ron Paul right and Bush wrong on policy in Iraq.

As a matter of fact, we won the war in Iraq way back when GW Bush flew onto the USS Lincoln and announced that the mission was accomplished. We had ousted Saddam, the purported reason for going there in the first place. Instead of doing the smart thing, announcing our win and establishing reasonable terms for our withdrawal, Mr. Bush instead decided that some nation building was in order. That became our new objective–to establish a pro-Western regime in the region. Although some still claim that we are there to fight a war on terror, fighting against tactics is never going to accomplish much.

Because we didn’t have a Constitutional Declaration of War with a stated objective, President Bush has managed to turn a win that was as quick and easy as all of the cheerleaders said it would be into a complete disaster. Guess who voted against giving the President carte blanche to enter Iraq without a goal or exit strategy? If you said “Ron Paul” you win. Guess who submitted a bill to declare war with a stated objective? Again, that would be Ron Paul. Henry Hyde called Dr. Paul’s Constitutionally-based arguments “anachronistic.”