Okay, let's take a furinstance.
Jefferson must have bothered the Muslim Barbary Pirates a lot by paying them ransom to release kidnapped Americans. So much so that the offended Muslims kidnapped more Americans and killed a few.
Now I realize that since 1544 America had been nosing into Muslim business in the Tripoli area and that justified the response of the kidnap, enslavement and murder of over one million Europeans and the seizing of American ships in 1784.
Again, American meddling in Algerian affairs, killing most everybody we could find, in 1815, caused the seizing of American ships in 1794. Funny how that works.
The final subjugation and occupation of Muslim Algeria by the French in 1830, was, of course the provocation for the implementation of the Muslim piracy and slave trading in 1544.
It happens to be part of reality that the principles we espouse are despised by some people. No need to be nice to them with our tax dollars. No need to police them. No need to set up democracy in their land.
But there is a whole lotta need to kill them.
while overestimating the strength of the enemy.
Any responsible person who studies the history of Islam (or communism) will see danger only in the opposite action.
(Attention FReepers, I am in and out of sarcasm here without tags (watch the dates), as I am fed up with this "It's a matter of leaving people alone when it is no business of ours to interfere in their affairs" crap, we've actually been doing that for most of our history and it gets Americans killed.)
Meanwhile the enemies of liberty do not only come as warmongers. Do you really think Ron Paul is an enemy of individual liberty and accountability? Do you think we cannot defend ourselves as a people without venturing into other lands to establish democracy?
One of the best commentaries I’ve seen in a long time on here showing the lunacy of the Paul foreign policy approach. Kudos on a well done post. The sarcasm is well placed and illustrates a great point.