Agreed..... On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Brian Bednarek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pat usually has it right ... I must have grown up at some point!!! > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:50 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> April 28, 2016 >> >> *At Last, America First! *By Patrick J. Buchanan >> >> Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, >> there is a revolution going on in America. >> >> The old order in this capital city is on the way out, America is crossing >> a great divide, and there is no going back. >> >> Donald Trump’s triumphant march to the nomination in Cleveland, virtually >> assured by his five-state sweep Tuesday, confirms it, as does his foreign >> policy address of Wednesday. >> >> * Two minutes into his speech before the Center for the National Interest >> <https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-foreign-policy-speech>*, >> Trump declared that the “major and overriding theme” of his administration >> will be “America first.” Right down the smokestack! >> >> Gutsy and brazen it was to use that phrase, considering the demonization >> of the great anti-war movement of 1940-41, which was backed by the young >> patriots John F. Kennedy and his brother Joe, Gerald Ford and Sargent >> Shriver, and President Hoover and Alice Roosevelt. >> >> Whether the issue is trade, immigration or foreign policy, says Trump, >> “we are putting the American people first again.” U.S. policy will be >> dictated by U.S. national interests. >> >> By what he castigated, and what he promised, Trump is repudiating both >> the fruits of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy, and the legacy of Bush >> Republicanism and neoconservatism. >> >> When Ronald Reagan went home, says Trump, “our foreign policy began to >> make less and less sense. Logic was replaced with foolishness and >> arrogance, which ended in one foreign policy disaster after another.” >> >> He lists the results of 15 years of Bush-Obama wars in the Middle East: >> civil war, religious fanaticism, thousands of Americans killed, trillions >> of dollars lost, a vacuum created that ISIS has filled. >> >> Is he wrong here? How have all of these wars availed us? Where is the >> “New World Order” of which Bush I rhapsodized at the U.N.? >> >> Can anyone argue that our interventions to overthrow regimes and erect >> democratic states in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen have >> succeeded and been worth the price we have paid in blood and treasure, and >> the devastation we have left in our wake? >> >> George W. Bush declared that America’s goal would become “to end tyranny >> in our world.” An utterly utopian delusion, to which Trump retorts by >> recalling John Quincy Adams’ views on America: “She goes not abroad in >> search of monsters to destroy.” >> >> To the neocons’ worldwide crusade for democracy, Trump’s retort is that >> it was always a “dangerous idea” to think “we could make Western >> democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming >> Western democracies.” >> >> We are “overextended,” he declared, “We must rebuild our military.” Our >> NATO allies have been freeloading for half a century. >> >> NAFTA was a lousy deal. In running up $4 trillion in trade surpluses >> since Bush I, the Chinese have been eating our lunch. >> >> This may be rankest heresy to America’s elites, but Trump outlines a >> foreign policy past generations would have recognized as common sense: Look >> out for your own country and your own people first. >> >> Instead of calling President Putin names, Trump says he would talk to the >> Russians to “end the cycle of hostility,” if he can. >> >> “Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave,” sputtered Sen. Lindsey >> Graham, who quit the race to avoid a thrashing by the Donald in his home >> state of South Carolina. >> >> But this writer served in Reagan’s White House, and the Gipper was always >> seeking a way to get the Russians to negotiate. He leapt at the chance for >> a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva and Reykjavik. >> >> “Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war,” says Trump, “unlike other >> candidates, war and aggression will not be my first instinct.” >> >> Is that not an old and good Republican tradition? >> >> Dwight Eisenhower ended the war in Korea and kept us out of any other. >> Richard Nixon ended the war in Vietnam, negotiated arms agreements with >> Moscow, and made an historic journey to open up Mao’s China. >> >> Reagan used force three times in eight years. He put Marines in Lebanon, >> liberated Grenada and sent FB-111s over Tripoli to pay Col. Gadhafi back >> for bombing a Berlin discotheque full of U.S. troops. >> >> Reagan later believed putting those Marines in Lebanon, where 241 were >> massacred, to be the worst mistake of his presidency. >> >> Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation building is not >> an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a Republican >> tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that proved >> disastrous for the United States and the Middle East. >> >> The New York Times headline declared that Trump’s speech was full of >> “Paradoxes,” adding, “Calls to Fortify Military and to Use It Less.” >> >> But isn’t that what Reagan did? Conduct the greatest military buildup >> since Ike, then, from a position of strength, negotiate with Moscow a >> radical reduction in nuclear arms? >> >> “We’re getting out of the nation-building business,” says Trump. >> >> “The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.” >> No more surrenders of sovereignty on the altars of “globalism.” >> >> Is that not a definition of a patriotism that too many among our arrogant >> elites believe belongs to yesterday? >> >> http://buchanan.org/blog/last-america-first-125165 >> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. 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