"Suppose that the United States wishes to pursue a policy of nonintervention. Unless attacked, we will not resort to military measures; and, as Washington and Jefferson advised, we will avoid entanglements in foreign quarrels."
Ron Paul is well aware of the limited value of the Constitution: it is a far from ideal arrangement. Nevertheless, it remains the fundamental law of the United States and, if interpreted correctly, provides an excellent means to check the depredations of a government that violates its provisions.
One would like to think, though, that in view of the appalling massacres and destruction of the war, some better choices than the ones Churchill and Roosevelt made were possible.
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Against this, there seems little reason to place more confidence in international bureaucrats than their national counterparts; and steps to centralized power have historically been inimical to liberty.
Here we get the news: “The Baghdad military command said Tuesday that unauthorized vehicl
Weigel is himself constrained to admit that in Iraq, American intervention has increased terrorism.
The key to George Weigel's thought lies in his earlier massive volume Tranquillitas Ordinia. St. Augustine beautifully defined peace as the tranquility of order.
