tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585546590247758056.post3006740067578797368..comments2023-07-26T04:23:51.268-07:00Comments on Rhyme and Reason: Hope #4: Hope for a traditional American foreign policyAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962733418216018081noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585546590247758056.post-76546739581136741112009-02-10T18:14:00.000-08:002009-02-10T18:14:00.000-08:00Obama is Woodrow Wilson: White, Ivy League, Forei...Obama is Woodrow Wilson: <BR/><BR/>White, Ivy League, Foreign Policy-crazed, and executive-power worshipping. I don't have much hope (especially after his pledge to have the white house control the administration of the census in 2010).Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537487662099723839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585546590247758056.post-71715129730857764392009-01-31T20:19:00.000-08:002009-01-31T20:19:00.000-08:00Okay, I wish to respectfully respond. First, I don...Okay, I wish to respectfully respond. First, I don’t advocate “absolute neutrality.” In fact, I don’t advocate “absolute” anything. Absolutes are neither prudent nor practical. My views are in line with what President Washington’s proscribed in his farewell address where he warned of “foreign entanglements” and “permanent alliances.” This policy does not suggest that we never get involved in anything. From time to time our national interests or even our conscience may draw us into a conflict. However, under the Washingtonian ideal, such situations are to be the anomaly not the norm. <BR/><BR/>Second, the whole “with great power comes great responsibility” argument that I hear so much is baseless. Each nation is in charge of its own destiny. Each nation must account to its own people and to its own maker. America's greatest responsibility is to its own Republic. If we trace the steps of other great Republics before ours, it was when those republics sought to spread beyond its own borders that their republic was lost. Which brings me to my next point. Our borders are not "arbitrary." They are sacred; and what lies between them is more precious than all the riches of all the the other nations of the world. <BR/><BR/>Lastly, no one need preach to America about human rights. We invented them—by which I mean we were the first to popularize and promote them—to write them into a binding constitution. Moreover, no other nation has done so much for human rights. Without America, Hitler’s Germany would have ushered in the third reich and Stalin’s Russia would have ushered in the new world order. America has done more than its duty abroad; But when we are facing the possibility of loosing our own rights at home we must cease from persisting to spread them abroad. We will no longer be able to be "the shining city on a hill" if the city is crumbling at the foundation.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962733418216018081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585546590247758056.post-14523215510123608122009-01-30T21:08:00.000-08:002009-01-30T21:08:00.000-08:00ohhh YEAHohhh YEAHJOSE HUERTA :)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16690217492298130811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585546590247758056.post-73926727160879047632009-01-30T11:28:00.000-08:002009-01-30T11:28:00.000-08:00Just to play devil's advocate (and I'm neither pro...Just to play devil's advocate (and I'm neither pro the bush or clinton FP style), wouldn't you say that absolute neutrality unless provoked is an antiquated notion for a country with so much power? With great power comes great responsibility, so by the fact that our country has it aren't we obliged to use it for the good of the entire world? How can we reasonably maintain neutrality in the face of glaring atrocities and not act when we have the power to do so? Just because the people don't reside in our arbitrary boundaries does that make them less worthy of basic human rites that we could provide?Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12153938997869305930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585546590247758056.post-18716656604482173432009-01-28T10:37:00.000-08:002009-01-28T10:37:00.000-08:00ok, I've got you're bloggings in my google reader,...ok, I've got you're bloggings in my google reader, so now i'm watching you. Sounds like life is pretty good for you right now - except for the whole Obama thing, huh?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12610344574135095983noreply@blogger.com