by Robert Gore
n July 4, 1821 Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, after reading the full text of the Declaration of Independence, delivered a remarkable speech on America’s foreign policy that is now remembered by a single sentence: “But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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 lustre 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.
On March 7, 2016 the US government dropped bombs and missiles from drones and manned aircraft on a gathering in Somalia—supposedly a graduation ceremony for a terrorist training school—killing at least 150 people. Many of the individuals killed have not been identified, but the Obama administration claimed they were all “terrorists.”
A lawless man running a lawless government. King George was a piker.
Joe -- We, the United States, have become a far greater “piker” than ever George aspired to be; for his aspirations were at least limited to his own empire.
The United States, these last 100+ years, has contemplated the entire world, and every government thereof, as being unto our direct interest, and subject to our immediate action; and we have trammeled thereby a multitude of peoples under one foot or the other wearing the Federal boot. And even those we have not directly trammeled, we have threatened, bribed, cajoled, and manipulated -- both openly and in secret -- and not just for ‘great causes’, either; but more often to purposes most generously described as divisive, petty, and obscure.
Semper Admonere Veritas Venire
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
How trueLT. Sadly, true.
LT…..pretty sure the lawless government the lawless man, Obama, is running is the same government to which you refer.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul must be mourning, ‘Remember the 150!’