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Originally Posted by Ferd
Neither Lincoln nor Seward were founding fathers. The founding fathers also lived in a vastly different time.
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No but they did cite the founding fathers as the authority for their own non-interventionist policy.
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I believe under Jefferson, the United States of America interviened in Tripoli and took on the Barbary Pirates.
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And what were the circumstances behind it? Was it not that the Barbary states (these were defacto nations) had been attacking American shipping and trying to extort money from the United States just as it had previously been doing to France and England before those nations reached an agreement with the Barbary states?
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our actions in both Iraq and Afghanistan ARE issues of Amercian National Security. they are not interventionist actions unrelated to America's own interests.
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So, let's see if I understand your argument: America engages in interventionist policies since the 1950s that anger various Islamic factions throughout the Middle East. Some of these factions retaliate in various ways, not the least of which is 9/11. Therefore, the United States has a national security interest in retaliating against their retaliation?
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