Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Entangling Alliances Distort our Foreign Policy. The root of the problem is our insistence on accepting the concept of one-world globalist government while pursuing unilateralist goals. We participate in globalist institutions like the UN, sign globalist treaties, and send our sons and daughters to fight in globalist wars that have nothing to do with our national interest. Yet we also demand the right to act unilaterally when it suits us, to set all policy in the global arena, and to exclude ourselves from many of the international rules. This schizophrenic approach inevitably gives us the worst of both worlds. We give up our sovereignty, but fail to win any real allies. We pay all the bills, risk the lives of our young people, and invite UN meddling in our domestic laws, yet still we sow the seeds of discontent and future hostility with the world community. All because we have abandoned our Constitution and the founder's ideal of noninterventionism in favor of globalism. What is badly needed today is a coherent foreign policy based on American national security and self-defense, free trade, a rejection of entangling political and military alliances, and a wholesale removal of the U.S. from the clutches of global government. [Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk] comment () trackback ()  12:36:58 PM     What we know about Saddam more than justifies toppling him. [OpinionJournal] The usual justification that we should attack Iraq because Saddam is a bad person. Such justifications never answer the question of why, if having a bad leader is reason enough, we don't first attack countries with worse leaders, or countries with weapons development that poses a greater threat. If an invasion of Iraq were justified by the arguement in this article, than we would first need to invade North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Pakistan. Possibly others as well. comment () trackback ()  12:21:51 PM

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