Well, I don’t care for Shafly too much. And I defy anyone in this country to label me a “DU plant”! I am more American than most of the people on FR, my family having been in this country for almost 400 years, and having fought for this country in every war we have ever been in! We’ve paid our dues, and my only wish for this country is to get back to the basics of the Constitution and the original Christian ideals of this country. And the founding fathers weren’t isolationists!
Just a bit of my weird sense of humor. Don’t take it personal. and btw, no one was talking isolationism.
Happy Anniversary!
I think you might have trouble defending your statement about the founding fathers and isolationism. First, one of the primary reasons that the Articles of Confederation were abandoned was that the Britain was flooding America with cheep manufactured goods and putting many northern manufacturers out of Business. One of the important new powers that they gave to the Federal Government was the power to enact tarrifs - which they in fact did on British Goods. Second, in his farewell adress Washington warned about entangling foreign alliances. So, in conclusion, I think there are good arguments that the times have changed since the founder but I don’t think you can make a good faith argument that the founders were not “isolationist” as it is defined by the Free Traders in todays Republican party.
Duncan Hunter is far from an isolationist. In foreign policy, he will step on Iran’s and China’s throats harder than anyone else. In domestic policy, he intends to level the playing field for our manufacturing industries. That is hardley an isolationist. It’s called putting America first.
Nor were they idiots. Free trade for the sake of free trade is idiocy. How have you folks been so easily convinced that those who want better trade deals are isolationists? I am willing to trade with China or anyone else but I am unwilling to allow them to cheat and ignorantly stand by and defend it as "free trade".