Frank Reichert wrote:
I'd rather quote from a different part of Paul's column.
"I believe our founding fathers had it right when they argued for peace and
commerce between nations, and against entangling political and military
alliances. In other words, noninterventionism." Noninterventionism is not
isolationism. Nonintervention simply means America does not interfere
militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations."
As with so many other things, Ron Paul is wrong. There is nothing in what
Washington or Jefferson said or did that rules out intervening in another
country, let alone the straightforward matter of going to war against another
country. One can intervene without entangling alliances. One can have alliances
without intervening.
Paul is also wrong about the concept that discarding Washington's foreign
policy beliefs, stated in, IIRC, his farewell address, is the equivalent of
discarding elements of the Bill of Rights. Washington's foreign policy
prescriptions - not shared at the time, as the Monroe Doctrine (OK, that was a
few years after Washington, but still part of that era) is clearly an
interventionist doctrine - are not enshrined in either the Declaration of
Independence or the Constitution, unlike the Bill of Rights. If he can't
understand that difference, then he really is as stupid as I think he is.
Doug
> Good morning, everyone!> > I think you're going to like this... please check
> it out!> > Frank> > *The Original Foreign Policy*> >
> http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst121806.htm> > Of course we
> frequently hear the offensive cliché that, "times > have changed," and thus
> we cannot follow quaint admonitions from > the 1700s. The obvious question,
> then, is what other principles > from our founding era should we discard for
> convenience? Should > we give up the First amendment because times have
> changed and > free speech causes too much offense in our modern society?
> Should > we give up the Second amendment, and trust that today's >
> government is benign and not to be feared by its citizens? How > about the
> rest of the Bill of Rights?
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