There is a rank due to the United States among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, due to the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.No, it is not off topic FWICS.
— George Washington, Fifth Annual Message to Congress, 12/03/1793
True. Ashamed the left is so ignorant in their so-called "superior intellect". You learn from history what happens when countries give in and show weakness to islam and communism...heads will roll so to speak, and the left's right along with it. They will not care.
“The left knows what it’s doing, by weakening the military and sapping the will of the people to fight.”
Washington would have been horrified that we were roaming the world, looking for fights, and looking to spread our philosophy by the sword to savages.
There is plenty of will to fight, but very little to go unjustly invade like Libya and Syria, and intervene and nation build.
There’s a difference.
Washington was far too intelligent to make an utterly absurd comment such as this.
1n 1793, we were barely a nation, having ratified the Constitution but 4 years earlier, and Europe was only dimly aware of our existence.
Never agreed w/this bellicose comment from Washington, asserting:
“There is a rank due the United States among Nations...
.....reputation of weakness.....avoid insult.....secure peace.....rising prosperity.....ready for war.” What?
This was uttered, when we were but 4 years old, effectively unknown to the world; barely having a functioning postal system much less a military.
A much greater man, James Madison, saw war for what it always was (in paraphrase):
“ War is the mortal enemy of liberty and the spawn of debt and taxes, the instruments for concentrating power within the State among those who would exercise that power ruthlessly to insure their survival at any cost.”