The Bill Rodgers
They would follow the founding fathers. Pull out of all countries and only do commerce with them (or not, if they don't like the country). At that point, none of these towelhead countries would give a flying f*** about us. Bin Laden (for example) hated USA because we were in Riyad attacking another muslim country (Iraq), and feeding arms and cash to Israel. At home would be changes too. We would have much lower taxes; since we would have no welfare or socialist programs, and would not be donating billions upon billions to other countries.
"We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country, nor with the general affairs of Europe. Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1793.
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all... The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an 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 ... Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world." - George Washington, Farewell Address, 17 Sept. 1796
2.60 a frickin gallon! 2132Dave Head No. The cold war was the result of our involvement in WWII. If we had not been in WWII at all; the cold war never...
"America... 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 extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which buttume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force... She might become dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit." - John Quincy Adams; Address, 4 July 1821
"I hope we may still keep clear of the broils of Europe,... and that time may be given us to find some means of shielding ourselves in future from foreign influence, political, commercial, or in whatever other form it may be attempted. I can scarcely withhold myself from joining in the wish of Silas Deane that there were an ocean of fire between us and the old world." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1797.
"Our nation has wisely avoided entangling itself in the system of European interests, has taken no side between its rival powers, attached itself to none of its ever-changing confederacies." --Thomas Jefferson to Baltimore Baptists, 1808.
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none, I deem one of the essential principles of our government, and consequently one of those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801.
-- Klecko's Komrades Rocking it live in 2005
