Actually that's a fair assessment of what the government of this nation of states should be. Accountable, transparent, and not up to involving itself in the internal affairs of the separate and sovereign states. Or involving itself in 'spreading democracy'. I fully realize neither of the major parties respect that nor want it, but it was the intent of the Framers for our political system to become one big football game of namecalling of choosing sides. Unfortunately that intent has not survived.
America is a country of doers. We don't sit on our hands. That is how Iraq got into the shape it did. If America relied on "caution" as you put it, half the world would be speaking German.
Actually that's very doubtful but keep up the hyperbole. As for a 'country of doers' I would suggest you go back and read Washington and Adams on interfering with the affairs of other nation states and what it leads to. Until that failure President Wilson, this practice, while at times occurring, was not commonplace on such a large and regular scale.
God willing there are still some conservatives that will be around, long after the interventionists have been chased off, that may be able to salvage what is left of the Republic
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....
God willing there are still some conservatives that will be around, long after the interventionists have been chased off, that may be able to salvage what is left of the Republic
I suppose then we should sit on our hands and wait for the terrorists to come to us then. Hell that's a good idea! Let's sacrifice our own civilians in order to keep up your idea of the Republic. Better yet why don't we just join the EU. Then we can let them and the UN let us know how we should govern this country. I am positive they would just as soon have us stand idly by while they make their deals with our enemies. But of course if we didn't "meddle" in foreign affairs we would have no enemies, right, except perhaps the ACLU who thinks G-d is a four letter word. I suppose you are a supporter of that upstanding organization too!
If we turn our backs on world politics, the Republic as we know it will not survive. I am all for fighting these fanatics on their own soil. Without our intervention in some areas, the world would certainly shrink in around us.
I suppose you are also against allowing the people of Iraq their freedom. Do you seriously think they were going to get it by themselves? Suddenly Insane controlled every facet of their lives, making any kind of rebellion all but impossible. Do we not have a certain responsibility to help those who wish to fight for the same principals as we ourselves take for granted?