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“I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property and lives of their people.” —Thomas Jefferson

At a time when it took months to organize an invasion force and three weeks for it to cross the Atlantic.

Today American cities can disappear in 30-40 minutes of launch. 5-10 minutes if it's from a Boomer parked off the Atlantic coast.

The age of muskets and breech-loaded cannon are long gone and to apply the wisdom of those days blindly is a major mistake.

I'm pretty sure Jefferson would understand that the world changes. The question is, do you?

I'm pretty sure Jefferson would understand that the world changes. The question is, do you?

The tools of man change; the basic moral principles that should or should not govern human affairs do not. The weapons of a nation change--they evolve. The fundamental principle that a Government's duty is entirely the interests of its own people, does not. We have gotten into an Alice In Wonderland pursuit of changing other peoples, which is as immoral as it is insane.

If we are attacked, we must respond. If we are the target of others, we must take necessary measures. But to expend the resources of Americans to try to change the world--what the Left in America has been seeking for two generations--is lunacy if not outright treason.

The real danger, here, is that we are destroying the chance of friendlier relations with other powers, to pursue ideological goals, outside our borders. We recognized that that was terribly wrong in the Communist and Nazi eras, when utilitarian Collectivists established monolithic bases in Europe, and sought to impose their will on others; but we somehow think it acceptable to allow academic theorists--dare one suggest crack-pots--to try to use American lives and resources, today, to play the same game.

Our policy in the Caucuses should be to offer both Russia and Georgia friendship, trade and respect. We have gotten into advising them on cultural matters, and that is ridiculous.

It is pathetic that some Republicans have enough sense to realize that Senator Obama's plans to expend our resources for the rest of the World are terribly wrong, yet they will not raise the same protests, when morally corrupted Republicans embrace kindred policies! We will either wake up, or find ourselves in a hopeless, as well as hapless, future.

Perhaps some will find the little debate we staged between President Bush and General Washington, instructive:

Washington/Bush Debate On Foreign Policy.

William Flax