Posted on 09/03/2013 12:12:54 PM PDT by steelhead_trout
A genuinely pro-capitalist U.S. foreign policy would advance both the national and rational self-interest of Americans, which is: to live and flourish under authentic freedom, true justice, and the rule of law, with individual rights to life, liberty, and property protected by government against the initiation of force or fraud by hostile foreigners. To be clear, this does not mean fighting unjustified wars in Viet Nam, Iraq or Libya.
Both President Obama and the GOP-led Congress failed yet again this week to abide by these principles as they apply to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Libya. Not only do these operations remain undeclared wars – hence lawless and unconstitutional acts – but decisions this week by Obama and his GOP allies will likely only prolong the lawlessness, and in the process further undermine our freedom and fiscal health.
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Unfortunately this nation has engaged in Wars since it inception. Outside of the Revolutionary War, The War of 1812 and WWI and WWII we should have stayed the hell out of ‘em. If we had we might have been spared the others. But War has always been profitable to those hocking weapons hasn’t it?
I pray the Tea Party candidates will seize this opportunity to send the Lindsey Grahams of this world back home and out of DC.
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