Push for Anti Imperialism by Pushing for A Peace Economy and Smart Investment

[merrill]

Push for Anti Imperialism by Pushing for A Peace Economy and Smart Investment

Speaking at a time when the struggle against colonialism was well recalled by living Americans—including his own father, John Adams, the nation’s second president, and former presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison—the veteran diplomat used his address to propose an approach to foreign policy that was at once visionary and restrained.

Adams’s speech from two centuries ago, though too little remembered and even less respected by his successors at the Department of State and the White House, remains the finest expression of the unique balance that a republic must strike if it wishes to avoid paying the unaffordable wages of empire.

Long before Dwight Eisenhower warned of the dangers of deferring to a military-industrial complex, long before George McGovern issued his “Come Home America” call for an end to military adventurism, John Quincy Adams counseled that a career of empire should be rejected as un-American.

After reading aloud the Declaration of Independence in its entirety, he outlined a vision for how the United States could understand its role in a turbulent world:

= Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.

But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

= She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

= She is the champion and vindicator only of her own

.= She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.

= She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.

= The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.

= The frontlet upon her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished luster the murky radiance of dominion and power.

= She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.

The genius of the American experiment, said Adams, was found in the revolutionary spirit of 1776, which rejected the corruptions of empire—the worst of which stem from the impulse to meddle in the affairs of other countries.

“Her glory is not dominion, but liberty,” Adams said of the United States.

“Her march is the march of mind. She has a spear and a shield; but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace.”

“Tragically,” as the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft recognizes, “the circumstances that Adams warned about only too accurately describe the situation in which the United States finds itself today. Far too broad a cross section of the foreign policy establishment accepts perpetual war as a normal condition, willfully blind to the immense harm done as a consequence of recklessly conceived and ineptly conducted armed interventions.”

Since its 2019 founding, the institute has argued for “a fundamental reorientation of US foreign policy…to change the prevailing mindset that defines American leadership in military terms.”

Will not be easy to achieve.

Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July

John Quincy Adams warned on July 4, 1821, that the US should speak "the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights"—not of empire. He was right.

www.thenation.com

 

[merrill]

Frankly I do not like this mess turning into compromise extreme........ It's time to put issues such as this before the voters no matter the cost. I do not trust politicians on either side of the aisle at this point.

Any compromise should have the voters consent. I did not vote for anyone to cut deals that involves screwing:

1. Social Security

2. Medicare

3. Medicaid

4. Voters Rights

5. USPS

6. Woman's Right To Choose

7. Not paying the bills as this could be influencing the thousands of lay offs taking place as we speak and will definitely mess with the world wide economy.

8. The border and immigrants

 

[whitehall]

The Founding Fathers listed the duty of the federal government in two sentences, "to provide for the common defense" and to " promote the general welfare". If lefties think that providing for the common defense is an example of "imperialism" they need to find a country that is less imperial. Maybe a country that calls itself "the people's republic of ....".

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The Founding Fathers listed the duty of the federal government in two sentences, "to provide for the common defense" and to " promote the general welfare". If lefties think that providing for the common defense is an example of "imperialism" they need to find a country that is less imperial. Maybe a country that calls itself "the people's republic of ....".

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