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Originally Posted by Chan
Lincoln's Secretary of State William Seward (the man who bought Alaska from Russia) responded to France's request for the United States to help Poland by defending, "our policy of non-intervention—straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations." I agree with his statement. The policy that had been America's from the days of the founding fathers (whose memories your interventionist views spit upon) is indeed straight, absolute, and peculiar to other (interventionist) nations.
Why do you have such utter contempt for the founding fathers and their view of foreign policy?
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Neither Lincoln nor Seward were founding fathers. The founding fathers also lived in a vastly different time.
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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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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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