To: TomB
****You mean like the entangling alliance with France that won us our independence?***
We ended that fairly quickly. Then it wasn’t until 1917 that we fought a war as allies with other countries.
559 posted on
09/26/2007 12:02:46 PM PDT by
jmeagan
(Our last chance to change the direction of the country -- Ron Paul)
To: jmeagan; TomB
We ended that fairly quickly. Then it wasn’t until 1917 that we fought a war as allies with other countries. The mutual defence treaty with France excepted, of course.
560 posted on
09/26/2007 12:31:23 PM PDT by
SJackson
(isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
To: jmeagan
Funny the “founding fathers” felt so strong about entangling alliances that they didn’t even bother to prohibit it in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
565 posted on
09/26/2007 6:10:36 PM PDT by
TomB
("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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