"The U.S. government itself generates most of the anti-U.S. terrorism—with its interventionist foreign policy—and then rides to the rescue with excessive spending on defense and homeland security and the aforementioned over-the-top snooping programs and other restrictions on civil liberties. Yet U.S. foreign policy is supposed to defend the republic, not drive the train and erode republican government. Ever since World War II, the U.S. government has been letting the foreign policy tail wag the republic’s dog. To have a republic with limited government, we have to accept some risk, but that risk will actually decrease if we trim back the foreign policy tail. Thus, such a trimming would allow the curtailment of outrageous and unconstitutional snooping programs that undermine the founders’ republic."
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:34:10 +0000
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