Saturday night's CBS debate on foreign policy, comprised of who we're told are conservative candidates, was an absolute disgrace. We were presented with the false choice of "should we bomb this country over here or this country over there?" The candidates discussed how we should torture people, on which nations we should impose "crippling sanctions" and Newt even said we should covertly murder ("take out") foreign scientists, what?!?!? These are conservatives?
At 6:00 and 8:00 this morning we talked some details on our founding fathers' foreign policy:
6:00:
http://media.worldnow.com/kfmbam/podcast/the_mike_slater_show_5960.mp3
8:00:
http://media.worldnow.com/kfmbam/podcast/the_mike_slater_show_5962.mp3
If you're really interested in learning more about the founders of the conservative movement and how they would feel about the current false choices on war from the Republican party, please watch this 9 minute video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLUoWhWsOWk
Here is the video we talked about this morning at 8:00 with Ron Paul at the Values Voter Summit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnj-5z9NJoY
George Washington Farewell Address, 1796:
"The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest...The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
President Eisenhower (5 star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWII) Inaugural Address, 1953:
"These principles are:
(1) Abhorring war as a chosen way to balk the purposes of those who threaten us, we hold it to be the first task of statesmanship to develop the strength that will deter the forces of aggression and promote the conditions of peace. For, as it must be the supreme purpose of all free men, so it must be the dedication of their leaders, to save humanity from preying upon itself." ...
