[wideawake]

It is, of course, of no particular concern why the did it, only that they did.

Obviously individual embargoes can be the fruit of wise policy or flawed policy.

However, that is of no concern to Ron Paul for whom embargoes in general are just a bad thing. He doesn't qualify his opposition to embargoes in any way.

Clearly the Founders had no objection to them in principle.

[tacticalogic]

He doesn't qualify his opposition to embargoes in any way.

So you say. I'll wait until I see the documentation to back that up, thank you.