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To: AbolishCSEU

“Progressive shill alert!”

Refraining from Invading other countries, ruling them at gunpoint and stealing their resources is the epitome of a conservative foreign policy.

In your seventh grade history book it was called “non-interventionism.” You might want to refresh before you start name calling. You can verify it’s the policy advocated by George Washington while you’re at it.


133 posted on 04/14/2013 2:26:20 PM PDT by Blue Ink
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To: Blue Ink
Refraining from Invading other countries, ruling them at gunpoint and stealing their resources is the epitome of a conservative foreign policy.

I'm generally sympathetic to non-interventionist foreign policy, but White Afrikaaners did not "steal" anything from the Xhosa or Zulu peoples. The white settlers had farms and property in many parts of South Africa long before there were Xhosa or Zulus squatting there to dispute it.

Following your logic, we should all pack up our bags, move to Europe, and return all of the US lands to Indian tribes. Come to think of it, just about everyone lives on land that's disputed by some other nationality or tribe, what are they to do? Possession is 9/10ths of the law, especially when the possession has been going on for generations, and when the nation in question (along with its institutions and infrastructure) wouldn't even exist without the "colonizers."

141 posted on 04/15/2013 9:27:58 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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