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Say It Loud: Isolationist-Proud! January 16, 2008 –
Stephen La Tulippe writing for Taki’s
Top Drawer comments, “America’s Founders were very specific about
the foreign policy paradigm they believed America should embrace. George Washington’s
farewell address, in which he warned his countrymen against foreign
entanglements, is the most obvious example. John Quincy Adams’ famous speech
about America not ‘going forth in search of monsters to destroy’ is another. But America’s Founders were not
ignorant xenophobes. They were erudite men with an intimate understanding of
history, economics, and politics. Several of them, including Ben Franklin and
Thomas Jefferson, lived abroad, spoke several foreign languages, and made
significant contributions to science and philosophy. Even as they strove to create a new
nation, our Founders consciously tried to avoid the mistakes of the Old
World. Europe was, in their view, a bubbling cauldron of dynastic intrigue,
war, and repression. Being familiar with the history of
militarism stretching back to the Roman Empire, the Founders also knew
that standing armies and sprawling military-industrial complexes were
incompatible with the survival of a free republic. Far from being an evil,
stultifying influence on our nation’s cultural development, “isolationism”
(or, more accurately, “non-interventionism”) was the most successful foreign
policy paradigm in American history. For the first century of America’s
existence, we followed the Founders’ sage advice and prospered because of it.
Isolationism was accompanied by miraculous economic growth, the flowering of industry,
and a positive balance of trade. During that time, the federal government was
small, weak, and practiced strict fiscal discipline. In the era of interventionism, on the
other hand, the federal government has metastasized beyond the worst nightmares
of our Founders. Mushrooming military budgets have spawned sky-high taxes, an
avalanche of debt, and the
curse of monetary inflation. Even worse, militarism has gone hand-in-hand
with an erosion of our civil liberties as an increasingly paranoid national
security bureaucracy has created ominous programs such as "Total Information
Awareness" and "Extraordinary
Rendition". But a comparison of the two foreign policy paradigms really need
go no further than a review of casualty statistics. (Continue…). The Ties That Strangle – Ron Paul
War Torn: Across America, Deadly Echoes of
Foreign Battles: Iraq Violence Killed 151,000 in 3 Years After Invasion,
UN Says  Judge Napolitano on Lincoln:
A great jurist comments for LewRockwell.com on Lincoln - the “Great Tyrant”
and America's first dictator. It's Time To End Hamilton's
Curse: Thomas DiLorenzo comments for LewRockwell.com
on Jeffersonianism and Ron Paul. 
 US drafting plan to allow government access to any
email or Web search: January
14, 2008 – Raw Story reports,
“ National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for
cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps
look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published
in the New Yorker's print edition today.
The article, which profiles the
65-year-old former admiral appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007
to oversee all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published
on the New Yorker's Web site. McConnell is developing a
Cyber-Security Policy, still in the draft stage, which will closely police
Internet activity. ‘Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the
authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search,’ author
Lawrence Wright pens. ‘Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation, he
said,’ Wright adds. ‘Giorgio warned me, 'We have a saying in this business:
‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'" A zero-sum game is one in which gains by one side come at the
expense of the other. In other words --
McConnell's aide believes greater security can only come at privacy's expense.”  |
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“Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
~George Orwell~
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An extraordinarily prescient video interview
with General Norman Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National Security Advisor
to Former President George Bush Sr. Why Invading Iraq Was A Profoundly Stupid Idea…
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